Quote Originally Posted by arkana
Quote Originally Posted by JeffreyGB
You don't have to have a better hand for it to be worth raising. In fact, many arguments could be made for letting your opponent take the lead when you have a made hand, but betting to get him out when you don't.
The ratio of his stack to the blinds is so low that a decent preflop raise required a third of his stack. Betting the flop would require the rest (or very close to it). When you have a higher M then you can get more creative... Fact of the matter is with low M confrontations the winner is decided in one or two confrontations. Raising 1/3 of your stack and check folding the flop unimproved is just plain silly since you will miss the flop most of the time. Betting the flop will commit you. (Unless you try the post oak bluff but that won't work vs your avg opponent).

Quote Originally Posted by JeffreyGB
I'm not a big fan of pushing, honestly. I'd have raised less preflop (probably 1800) with the Q3, then raised (not pushed) on either the flop or the turn
1800 > 1500? Blinds are already 640/320 so a minraise is 1280, can't really raise less than 1500.

Pot is 3000 on the flop and hero has 3000 left, how much do you want him to bet here without committing himself? If hes committed after the bet hes better off pushing.

Pushing while you still have some leverage is way better than wasting chips with weak bets. Keep in mind that the blinds alone are 960 chips...

Im not a move in specialist, I prefer to play post flop poker but with these stack\blind ratios its not possible.
That's what I get for posting while in the middle of a lecture on network security...my bad.