The 1000 bet is enough to let them know that I am taking this hand darn seriously and I'm not just screwing around trying to pick up blinds. Oddly enough, I think that it's less likely to get called than any other sized bet, which is why I would raise 1000. All ins and minimum raises are both classic blind-stealling type plays, but 1000 is usually coming from somebody who has carefully decided how much to bet. Careful decisions about the bet amount usually come from somebody who wants a call, so people naturally (even if they don't realize why they do it) fold to that bet more often than an all-in.
Of course, if either or both of them go all in, I'm going right in there with them a vast majority of the time. Sure, I'm risking a bubble finish, but things would have to work out pretty poorly for that to happen, even if I lost the hand. In all likelyhood, the BB would have to win the main pot, and the SB would have to beat me for the side pot, and even then I would have 1000 chips to work with. And if I win, I'm looking at a 55/45 edge playing for 1st or 2nd place.
The key principle here is that if the big stack has already folded, and you're the 2nd biggest, you should start acting like you're the big stack.Statistics: Posted by Nashvegas — Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:58 am
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