ace 8 on button, 5 left

[ed cooper]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 6.5 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP (t1405)
Hero (Button) (t2640)
SB (t2805)
BB (t5185)
UTG (t1465)

Hero's M: 8.80

Preflop: Hero is Button with ,

folded to me, should i just shove or raise to 500?

sb played quite a few hands earlier, i remember one limping with 87 off utg, then calling raise with it. tightened up since then though, and open shoving, never solely raising.
bb; recall him playing a hand with 5 3 from ep, and also calling a (min) raise.
so, i anticipate them to call wider than the average player.

[Fielmann]

Mostly just fold. Shoving is a big mistake because of the stack sizes. The Wizard suggests a shoving range of {99+, AQ+, AJs+} vs average players. Against loose players you should be even tighter.
Depending on my image and on what I've seen the villain doing on the big blind I might sometimes try to raise to 500, though.

[taipan168]

Maybe it's a leak of mine, but I usually make it 500 to go here and take it from there (folding to a shove obv and playing carefully on an A or 8 high flop). Agree with Fielmann that shoving isn't a good idea.

[TLR]

Maybe it's a leak of mine, but I usually make it 500 to go here and take it from there (folding to a shove obv and playing carefully on an A or 8 high flop). Agree with Fielmann that shoving isn't a good idea.

That is probably the line i would take to, raise less the 3BB, 500 or 550 will do

[dneureiter]

That is probably the line i would take to, raise less the 3BB, 500 or 550 will do

same here. If stack sizes are really awkward you could fold this here but it's not like we're there is 5 left with 2 super shorties. There was a point recently where I stopped raising here because "they always call" and "I always miss". I went on a significant b/e stretch (well.. continued the one I was one at the time for too long)

that said what are you cbet / general plans for flops like:

Kxx
Axx - do you check this back? I usually do in attempt to pot control
and lame flops like JTx two tone.