HU Blowup

[hangchiong]

right play?lost quite a few HU the past hour.not fun


Full Tilt Poker Game #8172749622: $2 + $0.25 Sit & Go (62164694), Table 1 - 150/300 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:02:07 ET - 2008/09/21
Seat 4: kyabram (9,160)
Seat 6: hangchiong (4,340)
hangchiong posts the small blind of 150
kyabram posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to hangchiong [8h 8c]
hangchiong raises to 4,340, and is all in???

opponent has been fairly ok,not too loose,not too tight


Full Tilt Poker Game #8172749337: $2 + $0.25 Sit & Go (62164414), Table 1 - 150/300 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:02:06 ET - 2008/09/21
Seat 8: hangchiong (4,910)
Seat 9: ChaosOportunity (8,590)
ChaosOportunity posts the small blind of 150
hangchiong posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to hangchiong [As Ts]
ChaosOportunity calls 150
hangchiong raises to 4,910, and is all in???

opponent has been fairly aggressive,not to loose.

[GatorJH]

I wouldn't push either of those hands pre-flop. In hand 1 I put in a standard raise and in hand 2 I re-raise and would call a push.

[taipan168]

First one is absolutely fine IMO, no other way to play it.

Second one is almost always fine too, but if opp has been ultra aggressive, raising/shoving every hand up to this point and now suddenly limps for the first time then I'd be a bit suspicious, but probably still shove it.

[GatorJH]

you are now open shoving with just under 15BB's? Wow.

[taipan168]

you are now open shoving with just under 15BB's? Wow.

I don't hate making it 750 to go and c-betting the flop, but that burns a lot of chips. Plus since it's HU you get called much wider than otherwise (ie. I expect to get called by a bunch of hands we're dominating or at worst taking the right end of a flip against).

[GatorJH]

my calling range tightens up like the Mayor of Nittsville against a shove like this.

I think you get more value out of a standard raise and shoving any flop.

[Rycky4Golf]

Depending on how the villain has been playing I can see shoving both of these, especially the second hand. Being in the BB I'd rather end the hand quickly being OOP and I also believe we are ahead of his range a vast majority of the time.