5-handed, 100/200, op raise to 400, KJ0, 1252 stack

[pokernewb]

Bill is a pretty tight player, although he was calling more than raising preflop. Push or fold?

$100/$200 Blinds No Limit Hold'em
$5 + $0.5 - Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 2: ridsdill ( $1652 )
Seat 3: bill1939 ( $2680 )
Seat 6: rhomba58 ( $872 )
Seat 7: Hero ( $1252 )
Seat 8: EvansM8 ( $1544 )
Hero posts small blind [$100].
EvansM8 posts big blind [$200].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Ks Jd ]
ridsdill folds.
bill1939 raises [$400].
rhomba58 folds.

[nutsinho]

Bill is a pretty tight player,

uhhh fold

[ShowMeAtlas]

Defnitely fold.

[Da GOAT]

KJ is muck!!

i rarely unless the situation warrants do i play KJ

[GatorJH]

Easy fold - You have a short stack behind you and I would rather play a hand like KJ when I am the first to enter a pot.

[taipan168]

Easy fold for me here. You have two medium stacks to your left who don't have you covered by all that much, I would rather be open pushing into them rather than taking the risk of being dominated here. Plus you don't have all that much FE because you'd be pushing into the big stack.

[nutsinho]

i rarely unless the situation warrants do i play KJ

THANKS

[pokernewb]

I figured you'd say this is an easy fold, but it just seemed like at the time this may be the best hand to push with because of my limited time remaining. Obviously bill's raise meant there was a fair chance he had a better hand, but I still thought there was a chance he'd fold, and I thought it may even be a coinflip with him raising a lower pair. Anyway, so in this situation is it better to push pretty much any two cards with only about 6xBB remaining when opening, than it is to push someones raise with a reasonable but not great hand?

I know this is probably elementary stuff, but I've only been playing SNG's for a couple weeks.

Hero raises [$1152].
EvansM8 folds.
bill1939 calls [$852].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, 7h, 3d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7c ]
** Summary **
bill1939 shows [ As 9d ].
Hero shows [ Ks Jd ].
bill1939 shows [ As 9d ].
bill1939 collected [$2704].

[taipan168]

Anyway, so in this situation is it better to push pretty much any two cards with only about 6xBB remaining when opening, than it is to push someones raise with a reasonable but not great hand?

You hit the nail on the head. Remember Sklansky's gap theory, you need a much stronger hand to call (or push over) a raise than you need to open raise.

Also pay attention to the number of players that need to fold before you successfully steal the blinds and the stack sizes of the players that need to fold relative to your own. In your situation I would push pretty much any two cards if it was folded to me in the SB and I was pushing into EvansM8 with 1544 chips to your 1252, but I would be more selective from UTG with four players still to act.

BTW, np asking any sort of question on this board however basic it might be.

[pokernewb]

Thanks again taipan. I have read the gap theory but its just taking a while to sink in. I do normally adhere to it, but my low stack tempted me into breaking it. Hopefully I've learned my lesson for next time .