When I'm in this spot I am either pushing or folding. I know you are getting 5.5:1 on the call and all that but unless I have smaller suited connectors I don't call here. The reason being that if you hit your hand, like you did, you are still likely to be behind and if you don't you have to fold. With 550 in the pot I either try and get headsup or fold it off. Some may disagree with me but it's just something *I* do to prevent myself from being in this situation with a dominated hand.
What I do here is fold KQ and save my 100 chips. The reason I make that move is the min raise from the tight player and the call from the MP loose/aggresive player. IMO the tight player made a smaller than usual raise with a hand that has you dominated so that the loose player with a large stack has a chance to dump a chunk of change on the hand. Turns out he has AQ which is the lowest hand I put him on here but still one that dominates your hand.
If UTG+1 is a tight player that means he's in the BB when you get the button and this is were I get loose. As a short stack you get to use your folding equity to play a hand. At this stage there is no bet that prevents you from being pot committed so you have to push allin and for others it's hard to call what is probably a third of their stack to look you up. If I were you I'd wait the blinds out and then push the next two hands regardless of what you have as long as there are no raises in front of you. If you get called you will be playing for a pot that will set you back up in good shape and more than likely you'll have live cards and not a hand thats dominated. I love to push with live unders that are sutied in this spot. You're short and don't have time to wait but if you're called by AK, AQ, AJ type of hands you are only a 40/60 underdog and thats good enough for me to try and get a healthy stack again. If you wait for the right cards you will more than likely die a slow painfull death. Use your stack and position to try and pick up the blinds once or twice a round until you either go out or double up. IMO there's no shame in making some loose moves when you are under 10xBB because you can't play proper poker in that spot. You need to build a stack or go home and stealing the blinds alone is 15% of your stack so it's worth the risk to push in a few times and see what happens.
Interestingly enough KQ, KJ, QJ, AT etc are my least favorite hands to go allin with when short. If you're called by anything other than a PP you are dominated 95% of the time. I like moving with any pair or cards that are going to be live, I'd take 89s over A8 anyday in this situation..Statistics: Posted by Tokenizer — Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:48 pm
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