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OloMeister
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Hi,
yesterday I cashed for the first time in a live tournament ( 175e buy-in ), just above a min-cash, 358e. Placed 129th out of 1563. It was my second live tournament and my first live multi-day tournament. I busted shoving a small pocket pair into an open-raise with 8bbs, the details are not important because I just want to know what are your opinions about this kind of play as I do it often in online tournaments as well when I'm on a short stack. I have noticed that this 'strategy' hasn't been working well in general, so I have begun to question it.
My thought process with this play is that a lot of the times the open-raiser has a wide range of suited connectors and high cards, which a pocket pair would have a 50% chance of winning against. And as I only do this with a short stack, the open-raise will call my shove pretty widely, if instead the open-raiser folds, well then I just saved myself from a flip, and scooped up the blinds and his raise, which is pretty huge with a short stack. With a really short stack, I think it is worth it to take a flip, as waiting for better hands might lead into blinding out.
When I say 'small pocket pairs' I mean 44-66 depending on the stack, because of course, if you have only 8bbs I don't see a problem shoving 77 into an open raise, as the open raiser might still have some smaller pocket pairs that will call the shove. But what about 55 for example?
Of course, the open raiser is sometimes going to have a bigger pocket pair, where we are only going to have a 20% chance to win.
So yeah... what do you think about this kind of play?
yesterday I cashed for the first time in a live tournament ( 175e buy-in ), just above a min-cash, 358e. Placed 129th out of 1563. It was my second live tournament and my first live multi-day tournament. I busted shoving a small pocket pair into an open-raise with 8bbs, the details are not important because I just want to know what are your opinions about this kind of play as I do it often in online tournaments as well when I'm on a short stack. I have noticed that this 'strategy' hasn't been working well in general, so I have begun to question it.
My thought process with this play is that a lot of the times the open-raiser has a wide range of suited connectors and high cards, which a pocket pair would have a 50% chance of winning against. And as I only do this with a short stack, the open-raise will call my shove pretty widely, if instead the open-raiser folds, well then I just saved myself from a flip, and scooped up the blinds and his raise, which is pretty huge with a short stack. With a really short stack, I think it is worth it to take a flip, as waiting for better hands might lead into blinding out.
When I say 'small pocket pairs' I mean 44-66 depending on the stack, because of course, if you have only 8bbs I don't see a problem shoving 77 into an open raise, as the open raiser might still have some smaller pocket pairs that will call the shove. But what about 55 for example?
Of course, the open raiser is sometimes going to have a bigger pocket pair, where we are only going to have a 20% chance to win.
So yeah... what do you think about this kind of play?