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  1. joeborg joeborg is offline

    Scranton, PA
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    Feb 13th, 2008 (2/13/2008 8:33am)

    I just started playing in some small buyin tornys... and playing half way decent...my question is last night i was playing in the bodog 10 rebuys 3500 guaranteed...it was down to the last 60 players of the 185 that started..average chip size is 11k...i have 5300,,and the blinds are 150-300 with one of the chip leaders at the table with about 35k stealing blind after blind....can someone help me out and tell me is this a time to start thinking about pushing it all in with a marginal hand against the big stack.....or do i have time to wait for the monster....moral of the story i got k10 suited in late position and raised to 1k the big stack in big blind pushes all in with nobody else in the hand....i call, big stack shows aj hit ace on flop, game over finsihed 58th....do i have time to wait or what............
  2. wmmcl wmmcl is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2008 (2/13/2008 9:43am) in reply to joeborg

    yes you have time to wait...calling here isn't very good.

    1)raise to less, make it 800ish to go- that way it is cheaper if you have to fold
    2) don't call with a hand that is easily dominated like K10 (my calling range here, after raising to 1k is 77+ AJs+ assuming he has been very aggressive)
    3) reverse the situation and it would be fine- i.e. he raises in late position and you shove with K 10- that isn't so bad. at least you put the pressure on him to make a call as opposed to the other way around
    4) is is generally a bad idea to try and make a stand against the monster stack- he could easily take the attitude, "well, i have the chips to call, so lets gamble" I see this quite a lot on bodog. however, feel free to attack him with a real hand (K10 or moosecock, as i prefer to refer to it, is not that type of hand)
    5) generally speaking, attack the middle sized stacks...the lower stacks feel pressure to gamble and the bigger ones feel like they have an ability to
     
  3. lordxixor101 lordxixor101 is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2008 (2/13/2008 11:06am) in reply to joeborg

    Tough spot. I hate to just be a pushover here. I could definitely see pushing all of your chips in with a marginal (or even completely junk) hand, if you have fold equity.

    Once he pushes, it's different. Do you really want to lose this tournament on this hand right now (which could happen)? I don't. Now, if you limped, let the BB raise it, then pushed when you had fold equity, I'd be ok with that.

    Once he pushes, you are still in ok shape if you fold. I think you fold and wait for a better spot.
  4. bk3686 bk3686 is offline

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    Feb 13th, 2008 (2/13/2008 12:10pm) in reply to lordxixor101

    Fold K10
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