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FT Bubble $30 MTT on Stars, How Bad is my shove here and what range should villian be calling?

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  1. yard_warrior yard_warrior is offline

    Kingston
    Jamaica

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    Apr 7th, 2008 (4/7/2008 10:38am)

    My Stack of 54k was 8 of 10 at the time, with SS=25k, while next stack to mine was 52k. Prior to this I had been playing tight, been hovering around 10bbs and only making plays with premium hands, but never having to showdown. Table was playing fairly rationally, except for once when seat7 made a loose "spite call" of a preflop shove by seat 3 due to some argument they were having.Should I be open-shoving this or just bide my time for FT and then try to make moves there?

    pokerstars Game #16548163117: Tournament #83434698, $30+$3 Hold'em No
    Limit - Level XVI (2000/4000) - 2008/04/07 - 03:17:08 (ET)
    Table '83434698 24' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
    Seat 2: JesseJames97 (90587 in chips)
    Seat 3: shaqelle1 (92658 in chips)
    Seat 6: velocityend2 (73159 in chips)
    Seat 7: PowellJam (112321 in chips)
    Seat 8: yard_warrior (53997 in chips)
    JesseJames97: posts the ante 400
    shaqelle1: posts the ante 400
    velocityend2: posts the ante 400
    PowellJam: posts the ante 400
    yard_warrior: posts the ante 400
    velocityend2: posts small blind 2000
    PowellJam: posts big blind 4000
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to yard_warrior [Ad 5d]
    yard_warrior: raises 49597 to 53597 and is all-in
    JesseJames97: folds
    shaqelle1: calls 53597
     
  2. Neek Neek is offline

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    Apr 7th, 2008 (4/7/2008 10:45am) in reply to yard_warrior

    I don't like the shove here with Ax. You can still afford to be patient, you do have the whole table behind you (granted you're 5 handed) and if you do get called you are crushed simple as that. Bigger ace or a pair higher than 5 most likely. A5 plays poorly against anything that you are getting called with. I would rather see you shoving 9T here than A5. For me this is an easy fold preflop.
     
  3. 3kingme3 3kingme3 is online now

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    Apr 7th, 2008 (4/7/2008 11:39am) in reply to yard_warrior

    dont shove A rag to "make a move" because when call you will always be dominated, instead at least shove something like semiconnected suited cards
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