late in tourney decision

[stormswa]

but dont you fold out all hands you have dominated?

if we 3x raise here with QQ we get Ax hands to play back at us but if we shove dont we fold out all those hands? dont we want to play against those hands?

I mean I would love for A9 to call me and hit a 279 flop and double me up.

[jdiana86]

I guess I just don't understand the situation well enough...although it is pretty simple I am stubborn in my ways. I guess in the future I should just shove with the two queens

[stormswa]

well if your going to raise 75% of your stack yes you might as well shove the QQ, because trying to play a 3k stack with blinds of 500/1000 is quite honestly pretty silly. I actually dont look at decisions in the way of im raising this % of my stack or that % of my stack I look at it more of how many big blinds im raising and how many big blinds its leaving me after I raise. If I know I have 6bb stack like 6k in chips I can not raise 3k because its only leaving me a 3bb stack so in that situation if im raising it going to be all in, BUT with a 10BB stack I can still raise and be able to fold a real bad flop because 7bb stack or 7000 chips is enough to still have fold equity on a later hand.

This is the reason fold equity is so important and why stealing and as Mr. Gordon said restealing is so important if you have a 3k stack and trying to steal from the big blind it just wont work because you are raising 3k and he already has 1k invested in the pot and there is 500 from the small blind and 25 in antes from all other players so there is about 1750 in pot even before your shove of 3k after your shove there is 4750 in the pot and he only has to call 2k to win that. So pretty much by putting in 75% of your stack you are going on a hope you pick up a monster hand in the next 10 hands. not good.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

This is a little different than opening in MP/EP with QQ (definite push). On the button when it is folded you could make a case for trying to induce a play pushing you in from the blinds. If the blinds would just call your standard raise with your stack (this case) you should shove and they will probably call that too. What was the level of MTT here? If this is low limit, pushing is the better play by far.

Depends on stack sizes and blind tendencies in the is case, but generally pushing is correct. It is too easy for QQ to flop a difficult flop with huge odds to call and a large amount of your stack invested.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

You will see a lot of calls from the blinds with Ax, Kx and other random drawing hands depending on the size of the blinds. What the blinds think of your range is also key here. If you are pushing any hand you are playing for the last few rounds, then a QQ push is disguised and you might a pleasant surprise from a BB big stack.

[stormswa]

thanks BB these were kind of the reasoning posts I wanted to see to weigh the benifits of pushing vs. standard raising. I think in the games I usually play the $4 180s I believe standard raising is better because the blinds have a tendency to shove their Ax hands thinking you are trying to steal. But of course also like you said shoving could be great too because they might overcall their weak Ax and Kx hands thinking you are stealing. I guess there is no real clear cut answer for this one.

[Kurn]

There's nothing wrong with making a 3-4x raise with an 11x stack with the intention of getting action as long as you NEVER fold postflop. In other words, you know you're all-in even if they don't.

[Talking Poker]

I mostly skimmed this thread. A few quick thoughts:

1. I mostly agree with Brian. I do think shoving with 11 BBs is fine in this spot, but I too probably prefer to usually just open it normally (especially in a situation where it might look like you are stealing, like in late position).

2. I ALMOST agree with Kurn, but one of the few exceptions happens to be this exact flop - AKx. I'd fold QQ there and save my 8 BBs for a better spot (all in preflop, of course).

3. jdiana is a way bigger than I thought. Only put in 75% of your stack so you can fold after the flop??? Whoa.