Blindly shoving all your chips....

Lucothefish

Lucothefish

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I dont know if i am correct but if I have 15bbs I should be in a waiting mode and try to pick off one of the all ins with a good hand and would it be a better to think about my ROI tis late in the touny

Well the mantra is 'Raise wide, call tight'. As you get shorter it becomes 'shove wide, call tight'. This is because you don't have fold equity when you're calling a shove (the 'chips we win when they fold' part).

With 15bbs you should be able to steal from LP and preserve / build a stack without showdown, but when you do get a reasonable hand you should be mostly looking to open with it, not call with it. You will frequently encounter situations where you have a hand that you're happy to open with, but still fold it if someone raises in front of you.

Basically, just try to be aware of the gap that exists between your opening and calling ranges. It's situational and will change based on position, stack sizes etc but there will always be a gap.
 
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