Short-stacked. Did I play this right?

[JeffreyGB]

I'm trying to play with Aok's strategy of refusing to play crappy hands to try to double up even as short stack. I'm not sure how non-crappy a hand has to be for it to hit that mark. If you're short stack, will you limp something like ATs, hoping for a flop that hits you? Would you raise preflop instead? Push preflop? Fold and wait for AQ/AK/pocket pair?

Hand #4964948-75 at Fri1020pmA-002 (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
wade3000 is at seat 0 with 5260.
Ballooner is at seat 1 with 8175.
Judge5 is at seat 2 with 2690.
barrypa is at seat 3 with 0 (sitting out).
BourneID2721 is at seat 4 with 7875.
natemclain is at seat 5 with 530.
JGB146 is at seat 6 with 805.
Cup_Crazy is at seat 7 with 5105.
Eddycash is at seat 8 with 5230.
Wishfull is at seat 9 with 750.
The button is at seat 2.

BourneID2721 posts the big blind of 150.

wade3000: -- --
Ballooner: -- --
Judge5: -- --
BourneID2721: -- --
natemclain: -- --
JGB146: Ad Td
Cup_Crazy: -- --
Eddycash: -- --
Wishfull: -- --

Pre-flop:
natemclain folds. JGB146 calls. Cup_Crazy folds.
Eddycash folds. Wishfull folds. wade3000 folds.
Ballooner calls. Judge5 calls. BourneID2721 checks.

Flop (board: 6c Ah 6h):
BourneID2721 checks. JGB146 goes all-in for 655.
Ballooner calls. Judge5 calls. BourneID2721 folds.

Turn (board: 6c Ah 6h Ts):
Ballooner checks. Judge5 checks.

River (board: 6c Ah 6h Ts 9h):
Ballooner checks. Judge5 checks.

Showdown:
Ballooner shows 7h 8h.
Ballooner has 7h 8h Ah 6h 9h: flush, ace high.
Judge5 shows As Jc.
Judge5 has As Jc 6c Ah 6h: two pair, aces and sixes.
JGB146 shows Ad Td.
JGB146 has Ad Td Ah Ts 9h: two pair, aces and tens.

[a500lbgorilla]

Raise or fold preflop. Limping with a 1/6th of your stack is silly.

-'rilla

[poskid_1982]

I agre with 'rilla. This hand is a perfectly legit push here. unfortunately one of those guys would probably call neway.

[vqc]

putting in a legitimate preflop raise (read 2.5x-3x BB) would almost be half ur stack, at which point ud be pot committed, I think that if you were going to play this hand at all, Itd be an easy push.

as for the Chances of you getting a certain hand/how long you should wait for a certain hand
(im not realyl sure if im allowed to put this link up. If its not ok, please dont throw poo, king monkey)
here is an incredibly good analysis of hand strength
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...=1#Post1955241

I'd push preflop here, considering your dwindling stack of 800. You don't have many more hands left before the blinds are going to eat you. So definitely push, this could well be the best hand you are going to see in quite a while.

[vqc]

look at the linky above to answer the question on "best hand your going to get for a while". Although, to tell you the truth, I have yet to completely understand the chart myself.