2 bubble situations

[sl4v3]

Both from Sunday Million on Stars.

1. Your M is 3.5. You're just 2 spots away from the money so not playing this hand will guarantee you some cash. Table is really tight (including the blinds). You have AJo on the button. What do you do?

2. Villain is on your right and has been robbing your tight table - open raising about 65% of the time from any position and usually taking down the blinds. You're about 50 spots away from the money. Your M is 8. Villain open-raises from the CO the size of your stack. You're on the button with AQo. What do you do?

[WCGRider]

1) fold, make the cash money

2)While id love to say make a stand, i think i probably wouldnt

[lemming]

1) I don't know about that one, I'd probably be pushing here... Although I don't know the exact payouts of the Sunday Million, so I guess folding to get ITM is fine as well.

2) If he has been openraising for your stack all the time, I'm calling here very often... If he has been raising normal amounts and now suddenly your stack, I'm folding.

[swede554]

1.Folding into the money shouldn't be a factor unless the money is really important to you and it makes up a considerable part of your BR. If so, folding would be excusable. Otherwise this is an easy push and you probably already know that.

2. Call. If he is as aggro as you say you are crushing his range. It'd help if you provided the stack sizes of the blinds as well because that would be relevant.

[swede554]

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1) fold, make the cash money

2)While id love to say make a stand, i think i probably wouldnt

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Before you give advice like this, ask yourself why you play tournaments and then ask yourself if this is good advice.

[anotherFliplost]

1) push, unless you satted in with absolutely no BR, and the $500-ish(?) payout will change your life.

2) I'm probably flat calling here, depending on villain's post-flop tendancies. I'm sure pushing is much, much better, though. Are you still on the bubble one orbit later?

3) If the min-payout cash matters so much that you are questioning these hands, just sit out and watch TV, take a dump, or masturbate (or all three!) for those 15 minutes while the last 100 bubblers drop from the tournament.

[levAA]

1) push
2) call

totally agree with:

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3) If the min-payout cash matters so much that you are questioning these hands, just sit out and watch TV, take a dump, or masturbate (or all three!) for those 15 minutes while the last 100 bubblers drop from the tournament.

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[sixfour]

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3) If the min-payout cash matters so much that you are questioning these hands, just take the T$ instead and don't play the thing

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[b-komplex]

Unless you have the blinds covered, hand 1 is a fold

Hand 2 I turbocall.

[NogbadTheBad]

I'd turbo push the first, i like to play multitable bubbles aggressively; its all about the final table. Unless you dont have the bank roll, and need to cash, in that case cash-utility beats cash-equity.
I'd call the second too, the money's irrelevantly far away so I'd like to double up here.