been on a downturn, advice please?

[beef1020]

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t150 (6 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

UTG (t3095)
UTG+1 (t1445)
CO (t550)
Hero (t1600)
SB (t4300)
BB (t2510)

Preflop: Hero is in Button with 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
<font color="gray">UTG folds</font>, <font color="gray">UTG+1 folds</font>, <font color="gray">CO folds</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises to t450</font>, SB calls t375, <font color="gray">BB folds</font>

Flop: (t1050) 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero bets t1150 (All-in)</font>, SB calls t1150

Turn: (t3350) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)


River: (t3350) 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)


How about pushing preflop or should I just fold? I hate the way I played it.

[Kevin8423]

Yeah raising is bad here, you either need to be shoving or folding preflop. You could probably argue for either play depending on how the tabling is playing.

[DevinLake]

I'd probably just shove it.

Btw, welcome to the forums. I notice you have a few strat questions on the front page. Plz read the FAQ about titling your threads.

[pattay]

im definitely shoving or folding preflop, could go either way but im usually shoving here

[mortimo]

push preflop, yes
when we got a bigger stack, a t375-raise is standard

[allaboutheu]

Mos def push or fold.

An easy general way to look at it is this: if your going to raise and after that raise you have under 10bb you misplayed your hand. The only 2 times when I believe there is an exception to this rule (for me at least) is if you have AA or KK or somehow based on a read you have of opponenet you know its better to raise then shove/fold. For example hyper agro opponent in bb comes over top of any steal attempt id make it 3.5x to go w/ aa, kk call his shove. Bad idea generally to do this w/ qq or lower because if he flat calls theres more then 1 over can hit the flop and land you in trouble. Goodluck out there man.

[PattdownManiac]

I think shoving might be unexploitable, but it's deffinately positive vs. their call range.