Manufacturing Folding equity STT

usually when you or your op has less than 5bb, situations come up like this in STT a bit..

the idea is to get a little folding equity where there appears to be none..

Stop and go

blinds 100/200 op from late position raised to 400, you have 800 chips in the BB with AJo. were obv not folding, we ARE commited to the pot, so instead of just shoving, we call (STOP)

then we go ahead and shove any flop with our remaining 400 into a 900 pot(THE GO).. if he has a hand like 77 here and the flops comes K10 8, its going to be hard for him to call, and he may fold his hand. when he would have easily made the call preflop as he is getting odds


The limp and go
(used when the opponant has a very short stack)

blinds 100/200 were in SB with2000 and complete with 78o, the bb has 400 chips, it would be fine to just shove here, but hes not folding any hand, instead we limp in.. if he shoves we obv call..

so if he now checks, we go ahead and again shove any flop. he may fold a raggety hand that hasnt connected, he may even fold something better than your hand like 10 8 if the flop is AK7 as he presumes hes beat.

Both of these only work if were dealing with stacks that are very short, if you have a strong hand preflop we might not want to use these plays, as we are not seeking folding equity.



another play that i find usefull when you have a very short stack is this..
blinds 100/200 we have 700 in chips on the button with J10S, obv not folding, would be a fine play to move all in, but were getting called with pretty much everything here..

instead make a normal sized raise to say 550

unobservant opponants may fold things like weak aces or low PP because they may not be paying attention to the fact you only have 100 more chips..
very usefull against multi tabling players..


hope this helps