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  1. #1

    Default Late big stack

    I know I'm suppose to be aggressive but whats the play here. This guy hasnt raised preflop hardly at all and not in a long time.

    PokerStars Game #3514499155: Tournament #17435791, Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2006/01/02 - 19:51:29 (ET)
    Table '17435791 1' Seat #4 is the button
    Seat 3: jaybyrd2 (1240 in chips)
    Seat 4: Samira0781 (2745 in chips)
    Seat 8: badbeatagian (3995 in chips)
    Seat 9: foxhoundzr2 (5520 in chips)
    badbeatagian: posts small blind 75
    foxhoundzr2: posts big blind 150
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to foxhoundzr2 [2s 4h]
    jaybyrd2: raises 300 to 450
    Samira0781: folds
    badbeatagian: folds
    foxhoundzr2:
  2. #2
    If he's really that tight.. I'd try the stop n' go.
    So you click their picture and then you get their money?
  3. #3
    Maybe I'm weak tight, but if the guy has been playing tight and has hardly raised PF, I'm folding this. 42 is the second worst hand heads up, I wouldn't lose any more money on this hand.
  4. #4
    Fold this, but not just for the reasons of this individual hand. For reference: he's tight, and he's only left 800 chips behind his raise. Unless he's super weak/tight he's probably calling your push and as taipan168 said, he has you by the 24o balls. Also think that losing this hand puts you within 300 chips of badbeatagain - not a good margin.

    The more important reason is that on many bubbles, the medium stacks will play for ITM and will drop most of their blinds/limps to your raises.

    You want to keep the short stack in there and with a healthy enough chip count that he doesn't start fighting like a caged animal (although not all will) so you can keep the bubble going and pound the crap out of the other stacks. Once they realize what you're up to and start pushing back or they take each other out, you'll hopefully have 7000+ chips and a 1st place is much easier.

    Of course, this all depends on the texture of the bubble.
  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by kingnat
    If he's really that tight.. I'd try the stop n' go.
    the stop and go is horrible here.

    u arent struggling for chips.

    if hes really that tight he probably has good holdings here and u are beat.
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    Me too. I fold this and get straight back to pounding away on the other two stacks the very next hand.
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  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by kingnat
    If he's really that tight.. I'd try the FOLD n' go.
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    So you click their picture and then you get their money?
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    I may just be a weenie, but I fold this with NO problems and pick a better spot, especially if he is that tight. Too much can go wrong to make me feel good about playing this....
  9. #9
    I fold it anyday, pick a better spot


  10. #10
    Blind defense is overrated. If you like to defend, pick a better hand.
  11. #11
    seems like a pretty trivial fold to me. It's interesting, I think, to note that he is simply making a standard raise, when he could easily be justified in pushing with any reasonable hand. I suspect QQ/AK+.
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  12. #12
    focus first on being aggresive WITH a hand. Being aggresive without one will come later.

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