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    Stu Ungar OrionPro's Avatar
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    Default APPT Qualifier hand

    Only 1 package valued $7000 or so, rest is getting peanuts ($150), 4 players left

    Got horrible hands and lost several all-ins to short-stacks prior, but I played truely excellent poker for my donkish standards, trapping with big hands, taking down many pots with bluffs and most importantly getting away from losing hands-the opposite of what I usually do!

    Villian in the hand had just won a monster pot with AK before this hand. I don't know too much about him, he didn't seem to be an ubernit though, when he was short-stacked earlier he was all-in QJ vs QJ once. On the other hand he was patiently waiting for that AK hand to double up.

    Pot size is $3000.

    Shove or fold?

    No Limit Holdem Tournament
    Tournament #6129524 Table #5
    4 players
    Converted at weaktight.com

    Stacks:
    CO (62124)
    BTN (41108)
    SB (45445)
    Hero (22323)

    Blinds: 800/1600

    Pre-flop: (2400, 4 players) Hero is BB : :
    CO raises to 6400, 2 folds, Hero ??
    Last edited by OrionPro; 07-25-2008 at 04:56 PM.

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    since its obv shove or fold, id fold and see what my next 7 hands brought me before i started to get really desperate. Even though ur the short stack, u could even let the blinds hit u again and still be left with a dangerous stack where a double up would still get u back in the game.

    Im very nitty in these situations tho
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    One detail I forgot to mention Dee, the player 2 seats to my right was strong enough to not give me free chips. So my shoving option might be limited to UTG and SB for the most part, unless I pick up a monster of course.
    Last edited by OrionPro; 07-26-2008 at 04:13 AM.

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    I'm thinking shove here.........It's probably a steal to push on the short stack. It's not a huge raise IMO a shove might induce a fold. Obviously I don't know a lot about the stakes you're playing but if I were in the situation I probably would shove..........although it is a tough call considering your chip stack is right on my borderline shove/fold threshold.

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    if u push, hes committed to calling with almost any two since hes getting a little over 2/1

    if hes a semi-decent player, he will have sized his raise knowing that he priced himself into a call if u push whereas he can easily fold if the bigger stacks push.

    id be inclined to think ur at best 60/40 which may or may not be good enough for u to call off with considering the payout structure.....id be happy enough to fold this and attack the blinds in later rounds ensuring you have a big enough stack to hurt if ur called which you still will have.
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