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Short stack short handed play??

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  1. jhesser jhesser is offline

    Pompano Beach, FL
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    Apr 2nd, 2006 (4/2/2006 12:13pm)

    I was playing a 10 SNG on Ub last night and the short stack at the table with 600 chips limped with AA UTG. Five handed at the table blinds at 200 and 100 and two others call and me on the BB with TT raise it up enough to push him all in. Every one folds but him, He wins and I just question as to why he limped with AA, he got pissed and berated me. It got me thinking about what he did, and reasons why. I don't think he really thought it through but it worked out for him, He doubled plus 500 chips.

    I've had high pocket pairs short handed and short stacked, pushed and only taken the blinds. Is that the right thing to do, or playing it as he did to enduce a raise a better way.

    Any advice on this type of play and other ways to play Short stack and short handed would be helpfull.
  2. kaiserblad kaiserblad is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2006 (4/2/2006 12:20pm) in reply to jhesser

    He didnt have a clue how to play poker. But then again be very suspicious of the short stack limp or min raise, usually signals big hand. You didnt say what your stack size was but either way i would say you did all you could do.
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    Apr 2nd, 2006 (4/2/2006 12:27pm) in reply to kaiserblad

    I had about 3500 chips and was going to take him all in with a TT no matter what. But the way he played it got me thinking. If I wouldn't have raised it up and just called, one person that folded would have hit his set of 2's, and crushed his AA. When I'm short stacked people love to push me all in, limping in hopes of enducing a raise might work in certain situations. I guess it really depends on the table.
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  4. ferrengi ferrengi is offline

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    Apr 2nd, 2006 (4/2/2006 12:53pm) in reply to jhesser

    This guy was so short-stacked it really didn't matter. His raise will probably not scare anyone anyway.
    However, if the blinds were 100/200 and he had 1200 chips, I am in favor of raising all-in. In that situation, it will throw people off because they will think he is probably raising with any 2 decent cards. He might well get called by Ax or Kx. With only a 6BB all in raise, if someone calls in one of the blinds they are getting almost 2 to 1 and will call with a wide range of hands.

    My personal opinion is that slowplaying is very dangerous but even more so when you are already so short-stacked that you have to win all of your playable hands. You want as few people calling as possible. I have seen a lot of people min raise with high PPs short-stacked and it usually means that they want action. But they don't realize a good player can see right through this and in any case they are giving other people great odds to bust them.

    This guy was just lucky it didn't bite him in the ass this time.
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