$5.50 NLHE STT: Mid-stages play: UTG hand selection at relatively tight table.

nabmom

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Final hand for today. I guess I'm just struggling with knowing how aggressive to be (and when to be aggressive). I'm playing very tight (about 6/6 over the 34 hands of this game) so that hopefully makes my raise here from UTG something that should be taken seriously.

In direct contradiction of my earlier hand where I said 44 was too weak to push and I thought a raise would be too much of my stack, here I think I have a similar situation and I do push.

I'm thinking I should just be tighter in EP, but maybe that's not the optimum way to have enough chips to make it past the bubble.

Merge - $0+$0.00|<> NL - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 1,622.00 (6/6)
BTN: 1,227.00 (18/9)
SB: 1,770.00 (27/9)
BB: 2,194.00 (41/26)
Hero (UTG): 2,215.00
MP: 4,472.00 (21/9)

SB posts SB 75.00, BB posts BB 150.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 225.00) Hero has A T

Hero raises to 325.00
 
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Too loose imo, especially with a load of shovable stacks to act that put you in awkward spots.
 
Jillychemung

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Too loose imo, especially with a load of shovable stacks to act that put you in awkward spots.

+1 you are inviting the smaller stacks to shove on you. Fold this preflop.
 
Loonbat

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Agree with both posters above ... you will find better positions to shove your stack.
 
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