push on the bubble?

chok1 · #1 11-08-2006, 01:26 AM

seen sb play some wierd hands. i havent tried any steals while he was in the blinds.

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SB (t4290)
BB (t5740)
UTG (t1010)
hero (t2460)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
1 fold, hero raises to t600, SB raises to t1875, 1 fold, hero???

TruFloridaGator · #2 11-08-2006, 01:35 AM

Your initial raise is much too big. Keep it smaller in case this happens. In a vacuum you should shove because the big stacks should be shoving over any standard raise.
However, you should raise to 400 & fold to a shove.

Shillx · #3 11-08-2006, 01:39 AM

Don't raise to 600 PF. Make it like 400 at the most (or fold) and you have to fold to the push.

Jimmy James · #4 11-08-2006, 04:15 AM

Why the big raise preflop? Doing that just makes it harder to lay down your hand. I'd make it 450 and fold to the re-raise. Let that small stack go busto, then start pushing and owning ITM.

If you were already ITM, I'd probably make the call as played since you raised so much preflop...might as well coinflip now and hope to get your stack up to play for 1st.

slimon · #5 11-08-2006, 04:19 AM

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Don't raise to 600 PF. Make it like 400 at the most (or fold) and you have to fold to the push.

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Raising to 375 is good too? Raising 2.5xbb doesn't show that your weak right?

futuredoc85 · #6 11-08-2006, 04:37 AM

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Don't raise to 600 PF. Make it like 400 at the most (or fold) and you have to fold to the push.

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Raising to 375 is good too? Raising 2.5xbb doesn't show that your weak right?

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yes 375 is good too

Rachmaninov · #7 11-08-2006, 06:37 AM

I dont like the 375 raise, because you have to type that with the keyboard. don`t you think its a tell? i mean, with aces or kings, you would never do that. you wouldnt care if its 375or 412 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]If you make it 375...then make it 400. This doesnt look like a "type-in-dont-reraise-me-raise"...At least its my experience that type-in-raises usually mean weak or vulnerable holdings.

I`d prefer to limp, if Shorty wasnt as short. So this looks like a push or fold to me.