114$ stars - A9 standard call/shove?

[Luisgallo]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

UTG (t1080)
MP (t2795)
Hero (t3880)
SB (t3460)
BB (t2285)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t1055</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero?

Villain could have pushed very wide here but I was not happy with my position.
Is this a shove?

[taipan168]

How do you go from $16 to $114 buyins? Was the $16 tourney (or this one) someone else's hand?

[Luisgallo]

I do play 16$ as bread and butter and I mix them with 60$ and sometimes 114$.
I hate playing 27$, although a lot of people would disagree with me I find 27$ far harder than 60$, everytime I sharkscope them there are far less losing player in 27$ than 60$.
Anyway, bottomline, I play 114$ mostly to learn and having a bit more of "money challenge" which I don't have in the 16$.

[mmorpg]

Could this be because there is simply far less players playing the 60s?

[Luisgallo]

Possibly but I also noted there is plenty of people with very limited number of SNGs playing there (100&lt.
My theory is that the random dude playing 50$ on SNG will just try the 604.
Yesterday I ended up in 2 60$ being the only one with a winning history all the rest very inexperienced players or very losing one.
While in the 27$s usually there are 6 regulars min.

[mmorpg]

crazy [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

One of these days I need to move up!

[ryanghall]

Looks like a routine push to me.

Ryan

[Daleroxxu]

you only have 2 players to worry about overcalling, really easy push for you.

let me know how you get on at the $114s

[Chipchucker5]

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Villain could have pushed very wide here but I was not happy with my position.
Is this a shove?

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Just because a villain could and should be pushing very wide, doesn't mean that he is. This is one thing that I've noticed about short stacked players in the late game: they're often not pushing nearly as wide as you would expect. After all, why do you think they're so short in the first place...they've been waiting for a good hand to get their money in. Judging by his stack, he's likely already missed some easy ATC (or very wide) +EV pushes.

That being said, unless you have a solid read that villain is in fact shoving very wide (as he should be), then I might pass on this one.

[Luisgallo]

readless which range do you put villain on to pass since you had him well covered?

My concern was not on the call vs villain but rather to the weakness of my hand compared to my postion.