|
|
#1
11-01-2007, 07:17 PM
|
|||
|
|||
Pushing small pairs?
Spreads like a disease, anyone noticed? Lately, I've seen an increased amount of Villains going crazy with small pocket pairs. For example, someone raises from EP and Villain pushes from LP/blinds for 10BBs more with 44, praying original raiser doesn't have a higher pocket pair. Ok, there's a small FE involved, but most players are often calling pushes with a very big chunk of their EP raising range. An even worse example I find more and more common, is Villains calling pushes with small pockets, this time no FE and only a slightly larger stack than shover's stack. Say CO is pushing with 10BBs behind, then there seem to be no problem calling that push with 33 and 14BBs behind. WTF is the reason behind this "Please let it be a coinflip"-move?
I'm just confused and wondering if anyone else has noticed? I don't mind pushing random mid cards when I know 22 is in their calling range... 
|
|
#4
11-02-2007, 04:33 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Pushing small pairs?
[ QUOTE ]
Rocco, If there are high antes and LP raiser is shoving a very wide range, calling with small pairs is often correct if you're one of the blinds. [/ QUOTE ] True, dat... I might be passing up a small edge here, but I'm always being put of by the fact that it's either a flip or I'm dominated. At which level does it become +EV to call with small pockets? And what range do we have to put Villain on to make it profitable? I'm gonna look for some hand histories and do some calculations... Guess I was just tired and pissed last night after having my pockets two-outed by "stupid" calls. I realize now that widening my pushing range only makes it more profitable for my opponents to call with small pockets.
|
|
#5
11-02-2007, 10:11 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Pushing small pairs?
Rocco...when blinds and antes start to represent a large % of stacks we need to invite flips rather than avoid them...small pairs are a gamble yes but doubling stack at mid to late stages is a nice reward too
|
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
