16 remain of 1600. No real reads at table as this was not my hand, but a hand I found on another forum that has generated a significant amount of discussion.


PokerStars Game #7449029016: Tournament #37779902, - Level XVII (4000/8000) - 2006/12/15 - 01:30:16 (ET)
Table '37779902 180' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: tmhondamx (45549 in chips)
Seat 2: Jay Baggs (281256 in chips)
Seat 3: random_hero1 (156600 in chips)
Seat 5: Crakavelli (117921 in chips)
Seat 6: pzs6016 (85180 in chips)
Seat 7: curbykeizer (148063 in chips)
Seat 8: kevinjay (305134 in chips)
Seat 9: mudzlinger (476383 in chips)
tmhondamx: posts the ante 400
Jay Baggs: posts the ante 400
random_hero1: posts the ante 400
Crakavelli: posts the ante 400
pzs6016: posts the ante 400
curbykeizer: posts the ante 400
kevinjay: posts the ante 400
mudzlinger: posts the ante 400
kevinjay: posts small blind 4000
mudzlinger: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to tmhondamx

Your move: Fold or Push?

5bb I push any two tbh.

why would you push any two under the gun?

I would tend to fold here with the info given and the stack sizes at the table.

I'd push K3 because I think I'm ActionJeff.

But, yeah, I'd shove just about any 2 here. Pairs, any Ace, any King, Q9+, Qxs, J9+, Jxs T9/T8-45/46, T7s-74s. The pot's equal to about 33% of my stack. You're not called much and when you are it's usually a 50/50 or 3:2 against one of the blinds.

22 is good, on average you lose chips provided you always get called. With some folding equity, it should be +/- 0 chips, which is a great result at this point.

EDIT: I forgot the pot provides a substantial extra overlay; this prolly makes it even +chipEV.