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Originally Posted by trippedupA-Town
2. Consider the type of opponent you are up against, size up his stack in relation to your own, understand what equity your opponent has.
IMO once again i would have to agree with you about throwing out a raise, you have position on him if he only decides to call, and you might be able to take down the pot preflop. (which is never bad) The only problem i have is the amount of the raise. throwing out 2000 chip bet is only committing the SB to a push/fold situation preflop, and once again TT IMO isnt that strong seven handed. (plus he could be playing A10 or some garbage like that) i would have committed maybe 1000 to 1200 bet preflop. This brings me to my next point had the SB decided to push after a 1k bet.
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The big blind is $600, so a $1000 bet isn't possible. $1800 is the standard 3bb raise, but there are $50 antes at this point so I bet just a bit more.
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3. The speed at which the SB pushes. Some people on this forum may feel that the speed of bets online is irrelevant to the game, and they are entitled to their opinions, but i have found that finding patterns in the length of betting has helped me exponentially. If you can remember, how fast did he shove the rest of his chips? Anything inside of 2 seconds indicates to me, (once again my opinion) that his hand may consist of ak-aj kq, jj. normally along those lines, and of course they can sometimes have 88 66 ect. but that is the beauty variance right? (haha) But normally i happen to find the above hands are normally what they will push with. so really it comes down to whether or not you want to race that early on in the tourney, and if you dont you only risk 1/5 of your stack. (supposing you bet 1k or around their)
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Villain took time -- about 30 seconds.