Online Poker Forum - Pocket pair, "late" in a 9man sng, $2, Good or bad spot for a shove?

Fimbu · Last edited by Fimbu on Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:34 am; edited 1 time in total

Hello,

Today is the day for pretty tight tables at the $2 sng. My 3rd super tight table in a row, so 5 players left and the blind is eating away.

M < 5 is not a comfy spot.

I'm thinking I did the right thing here, but then again.. play it safe and wait for the bubble, or shove all day long? Smile

1 table sit and go, $2 at Full tilt poker:

Full Tilt Poker $2 + 0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds - 5 players -
The Official Hand History

SB: t720 M = 2.40
BB: t2500 M = 8.33
Hero (UTG): t1270 M = 4.23
CO: t1610 M = 5.37
BTN: t7400 M = 24.67

Pre Flop: (t300) Hero is UTG with 5

5

Hero raises to t1270 all in, 3 folds, BB calls t1070

Flop: (t2640) K

2

3

Turn: (t2640) 9

River: (t2640) Q

fat rugger · Royal Flush Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 789

shove all day in my opinion.

You're pretty short can't really wait for the bubble. And I would steal with this even if you weren't short.

NilesMonkey · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:37 am Post subject:

A shove is good here, especially against a tight table.

One other thing, just to clarify:

lovebeefstew · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:29 am Post subject:

Yeh shove here is good.

Fimbu · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject:

Thanks all for the advice. I've bean shoving PP all day long when I got in similar situations.

Got another post now about a higher PP in an earlier stage of the game:

http://pokerforums.fulltiltpoker.com/not-sure-if-this-is-the-right-place-to-make-a-stab-at-it-or-not-5-single-table-sng-t86836.html

PSOpokerchef · High Card Joined: 07 Mar 2009 Posts: 2

same advice as earlier easy shove

Danduy · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:25 am Post subject:

You want action with your aces in the last hand. But your raise is just to small. You're giving the UTG a +3:1 odds on his call so he is right to call with almost everything (he doen't know you hold the aces) as a 2:1 overall dogg.

If he is getting 3:1 on a call with any pp and hits it on a ragged flop. You'll have a hard time to get away from it, so let them gamble with the worst of it and raise some bigger like 250 - 300 or so to denie him proper odds and keep limpers out on the blinds because they have the same odds (except the SB off course) as the first limper

Even why a bigger raise is appropriate is that he 'could' be planning with a big hand to come over the top and that would be the best scenario for you or he was feeling pot commited and reraised all-in. All good scenarios for you.

All in all the hand worked out untill the river. He could not get away from top pair, bad kicker and drew out on you. These things happen from time to time.

But keep it up and good luck at the tables.

Kam1972 · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:26 am Post subject:

CitizenCain · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:45 am Post subject:

Danduy · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:13 am Post subject:

Azonicbh · Pair Joined: 02 Aug 2009 Posts: 44

That's a definate shove as someone said. Although , if you had 2k chips or more in that same situation I would advise otherwise. Anywhere from 2k to 2.5k chips I would almost advise to fold. If you have 2.5k+ chips you can make a standard 2.5/3bb raise since it's a tight table.

The problem with the 2k~2.5k shove in that situation is that since these people are tight , if you get called you'll probably be a very big dog . It's a big risk for a 300 chip blind steal when you have as many chips. But since you have 6bb you can't really wait for a better spot , and that 300 chips represents a full 25% of your chip stack if you win it.

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