Which hands do you guys push?

[Zeffke]

Since I often gets in trouble with this question can someone tell me which hands u guys push first in:

1)in early position
2)middle position
3)late position
4)SB vs BB

I know it's based on more facts then just your hand but a little basic scheme would help me a lot cause I'm fairly new in tournament poker and have troubles with it all the time,

Thanks

[levAA]

if you like to work that out i would suggest you get the SnG-Power-Tools and use this for your experiments.

if you don't want to spend any money on poker-software you can create a spreadsheet (f.e. in excel) an experiment there with different stack sizes, different opponent-types, blinds etc.

pushing ranges are not that easy, than i can give a general advice, too much depends on player types, stack sizes and of course blinds.

[eMbAh]

Hey there

You should read the chapter about the Sklansky-Chubokov rankings in the book No Limit Hold'Em: Theory And Practice

and download an icm (independant chip model) tool like sngwiz http://www.sngwiz.com/ and practice the quiz. This really helped me

[sapsuckah]

While I agree that sngwiz is a great tool, I think that just the fact that the OP would ask a question like this shows that he has a lot of fundamental learning to do before ICM will mean anything to him.

Zeff, you've asked a totally unanswerable question. The best advice I can give you is to tell you to NEVER generalize in poker. Every tournament, every hand, every situation is entirely different. Read 2+2 and some books (HoH 1 and 2 in particular) to start getting a feel for situations.

Hopefully a year from now you'll look back at this thread and say, "Did I really post that?!?"

Matt

[Zeffke]

Thanks guys [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[jdog1999]

I'm not sure what your bank roll is, but if I might make a suggestion. I like the 45 person sit and gos on poker stars. it will give you the full range of situations that you will need to make these decisions.

[Cokeman]

It all depends on stack sizes, blinds, ITM, shorthanded, who raised before us.....