$20/180 button steal

[mariachiinc]

Curious to see what you do here. No read on player other than he has a decent ROI and and has a pretty wide raising range.

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t400 with t25 antes (9 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

UTG (t1825)
UTG+1 (t6790)
MP1 (t4305)
MP2 (t6655)
MP3 (t7970)
CO (t6395)
Button (t3460)
SB (t9655)
Hero (t10212)

Preflop: Hero is in BB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
<font color="gray">UTG folds</font>, <font color="gray">UTG+1 folds</font>, <font color="gray">MP1 folds</font>, <font color="gray">MP2 folds</font>, <font color="gray">MP3 folds</font>, <font color="red">CO raises to t1200</font>, <font color="gray">Button folds</font>, <font color="gray">SB folds</font>, <font color="red">

[Stake Monster]

I call and see what the flop brings. If it's dry I'll play it aggressively, otherwise I play it slow. I hate playing out of position with a hand like that in a re-raised pot.

[pfloydnbeer]

re raise 4000k

[LooseCaller]

this seems like a fairly standard push. you're very ahead of any reasonable co raising range and there's already around 2000 in the pot when he only has around 5000 left.

[jgunnip]

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this seems like a fairly standard push. you're very ahead of any reasonable co raising range and there's already around 2000 in the pot when he only has around 5000 left.

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[shaundeeb]

lolllll shove

[mariachiinc]

I did shove, just making sure my play is up to your standards deeb...

[coatsie]

Villain M=7.8
Hero M=12.4

Villain has a perfect stack to resteal against, and from your description on him having a wide range i would push any pair, any ace, K7+, Q9+, JT+, any connectors 76+ (what ppl think of this range?)

[Galwegian]

OK - it's pretty clear that shoving is +ev here. However, is it better than Stake Monster's line? Is it not true that 99 pretty much splits the villains range. So if you call, you give yourself a chance to extract value from hands that would fold to a shove (and maybe fold out some hands that have you beaten preflop)? Just a thought. 57% of flops will have 0 or 1 overcards to your pair.

[Coz]

We should also be worried about more than just overcards, like flushes, straights and flopped sets. By pushing we have a chance at picking up a nice pot, plus if we are called we are guranteed to see all five cards which means that even if we are out flopped we don't have to put anything extra into the pot to out draw him. By pushing we also negate our positional disadvantage. With stack sizes and villians wide range, I think that calling is too big a gamble at this point in the tourney.