What line do most of you take when the blinds are at 50/100 and the stacks are as follows:
Me: 2500
Villain: 500

If I am on the button with 89 suited is it a shove here? Aren't they going to call about 80% of the time with any two cards? Which means that you would be behing most of the time, because we only have 9 high. Usually if you try and limp they shove and that is not what you typically want. You want to be the one shoving not the one calling. I think you should fold it and wait for a better hand with racing value, like a k8, A7, or QJ. What do you think?

what he said. and it would be -ev for the shortie to be calling w/ 80%.

 

Originally Posted by TheMayor

Please dont play 55$ hu's if you dont know to shove 89s on the button with villain at 5bb....you must be burning $$ if you cant make this shove.

You can shove almost any two here even 35s is unexploitably +EV.

Unexploitable shoving range with him at 5bb no ante is 22+ A2+ K2+ Q2+ J2s+ J3o+ T2s+ T6o+ 94s+ 97o+ 84s+ 86o+ 74s+ 76o+ 64s 53s 43s.....

If you wanna wait for K8 or A7 to shove here you will be down 100 buyins before you know it.

What software are you using to get your "shoving range"?

<TABLE class=simple cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=3 border=1><TBODY><TR><TH width=40>PU</TH><TH width=40>CA</TH><TH width=40>OC</TH><TH>Range</TH></TR><TR><TD>SB</TD><TD><TD><TD>71.3%, 22+ Qx+ J2s+ J3o+ T2s+ T6o+ 94s+ 97o+ 84s+ 86o+ 74s+ 76o 64s+ 53s+ 43s <<What you should be shoving with</TD></TR><TR><TD><TD>BB</TD><TD><TD>60.8%, 22+ Qx+ J2s+ J5o+ T5s+ T7o+ 96s+ 98o 86s+ 76s <<What he should be calling your shove with. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Most people call less often than they should here, so you can shove a bit more than the 71.3% stated. 89s is humongous here.

Bottom line: If you want to have any hope at all of beating $55 HU games, you need to know the Nash Equilibrium cold.

Nash Equilibrium Chart <<where you can do that

Hope this helps!

agreed, plz help wth what the numbers in the chart mean. are they number of bb's the shorter stack of the two players has, and you shove the hand that correlates as long as the number in the chart is greater than the number of bb's the shorter of the two stacks has?

 

Originally Posted by Jennifear

To shove a hand according to Nash, take the number of BBs in the effective stack (5 in this case) and shove anything with a value of 5 or higher. Hope that helps!

jenn wouldn that be every hand in the deck?

Jennifear, or anyone else who understands the nash equilibrium chart, I really respect your game, I just want to be clear though. So if he has about 7 big blinds, then I should shove in with 10 3??? Because in the nash chart the pushing number for 10 3 is 7.7 That just sounds goofy to me, is that really the correct play, and if so could you please elaborate breifly why it is so? Thanks

If I am reading the chart wrong also would like to know that.lol

 

Originally Posted by rmsapp08

Jennifear, or anyone else who understands the nash equilibrium chart, I really respect your game, I just want to be clear though. So if he has about 7 big blinds, then I should shove in with 10 3??? Because in the nash chart the pushing number for 10 3 is 7.7 That just sounds goofy to me, is that really the correct play, and if so could you please elaborate breifly why it is so? Thanks

If I am reading the chart wrong also would like to know that.lol

T3s is 7.7 so it's good, but T3o is 3.8 so it is not. The proper range is in the above post with 71.3%. It explains that T2s+ is good and T6o+ is good.

<TABLE class=simple cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=3 border=1><TBODY><TR><TH width=40>PU</TH><TH width=40>CA</TH><TH width=40>OC</TH><TH>Range</TH></TR><TR><TD>SB</TD><TD><TD><TD>71.3%, 22+ Qx+ J2s+ J3o+ T2s+ T6o+ 94s+ 97o+ 84s+ 86o+ 74s+ 76o 64s+ 53s+ 43s <<What you should be shoving with</TD></TR><TR><TD><TD>BB</TD><TD><TD>60.8%, 22+ Qx+ J2s+ J5o+ T5s+ T7o+ 96s+ 98o 86s+ 76s <<What he should be calling your shove with. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>