| This is a discussion on All in with a pair of 5!? within the online poker forums, in the General Poker section; I just watched a celebrity poker championship a moment ago(Final table-Heads up)the lady is on the first move, pushed all her chips on front-ALL IN ... |
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| All in with a pair of 5!? I just watched a celebrity poker championship a moment ago(Final table-Heads up)the lady is on the first move, pushed all her chips on front-ALL IN with a pair of 5. A $200,000 price money and a $500,000 for the charity. Though the lady was beaten and came at the 2nd spot. I just want to ask is it a good idea to "All in" with pair of 5? or what's your strategy with this? |
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| Absolutely positively YES YES YES!!! but only beause it was heads up play. In shorthanded play, especially heads up, any face card is worth raising up with. A pocket pair (even twos) is far stronger heads up than they would be earlier in the tourney. |
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| Heads up ANY pocketpair CAN be a good startinghand to shove..., all depending on blinds and stacksize..., but with no further info i would say..., PUSH. It is a coinflip most of the time and behind only to any higher pocketpair, so push & pray... aC |
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| Heads up pocket pair is always the better hand Id go all in with any of them I think you have the better odds and chances are the other will fold. |
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| I would say, get them in while you are ahead. If you don't push, it is very likely that there will be 3 scare cards out there that could have you behind so if you play it slow and don't hit a 5 you won't really know where you are in the pot. Like most other people said, shove with your pairs HU more often than not. |
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| yes yes, definately for sure a good idea... would even be a respectable move with deuces...only time its a bad move is when the other has a higher pocket pair lol. but in heads up play a pocket pair is a better starting hand than AK, so yea push with it, and it puts pressure on your opponent and makes them think. |
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i cannot say if it was a good play without stack sizes, blind level, etc.it could well be a bad play to stack 5-5 HU depending on player reads and metagame. more info is necessary to analyse a hand the advice in this thread is horrible imo, " I HAZ PEAR, ARRIN" |
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Obviously if you are 50BB deep open shoving with pocket fives is a terrible play. Heads up you should only be open raising all in if you have less than 10-15BB (correct me if I'm wrong, someone who knows more about HU than I do). Now if someone opened to 3BB against me and I had 20 BB's, I could see raising all in. You get good fold equity and any smaller raise pot commits you anyway. |
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