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01-23-2016 , 02:14 PM

Amazin-Flash

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Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 154

i normally play on 0.50c sngs and when it get toward the finally few players and big blinds are high, players tend to go allin alot.

do you just call with common sense
or do you only call when you have premium cards?

01-23-2016 , 05:42 PM

Lndan

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Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 60

Calling only premiums is way too tight, you gonna blind down that way most of the time. Read about ICM, get ICMizer(or equivalent) and check some spots with it to get a feel for your calling/shoving ranges in different situations. Sometimes you should call/shove with most of your range and sometimes only premiums it's very situational. In general 10bb or less you should be in push/fold mode so going all in is normal thing when blinds are that high since you don't really have playability postflop.

01-28-2016 , 10:27 AM

Colinb7

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Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 731

Yes, you should avoid going all in. If your never all in, you can never bust out. Best of luck with that one though!

02-04-2016 , 01:08 PM

JayDowdle

adept

Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 1,120

study up on push/fold/call charts

youll deff have to start making some loser calls.... based on your opponents range

obv if he never jams.... then hes not shoving any 2 cards... so tighter call ok

but there are spots where your opponent will correctly be shoving any 2 cards.. and that's where youll have to grab your sack and make some looser calls

gl

02-10-2016 , 11:34 AM

tightywhity

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Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 2,396

In addition to the above pay attention which players shove all the time or rarely shove. Also, if you are on the button or CO and its folded to you with tight players behind you should consider shoving yourself to pick up the blinds. Don't shove any two cards but definitely wider than premium.

02-11-2016 , 07:54 AM

Colin252

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Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 518

Op you need an ICM calc so you can get an idea of push fold ranges

02-11-2016 , 05:50 PM

zilblitz

journeyman

Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 391

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lndan

Yeah, pretty much this. And what effective stack you start to push/fold also depends on other things like structure of the game you are playing and antes. There is a free calculator on Holdem Resources that you can play around with - you can't enter villain pushing frequency, but you can model most everything else.

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Originally Posted by Colinb7

Yes, you should avoid going all in. If your never all in, you can never bust out. Best of luck with that one though!

And pretty much not this

02-15-2016 , 03:09 PM

Jbrochu

banned

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 16,054

I only go all in with aggressive calls because I hate folding equity.

02-29-2016 , 06:45 PM

AMT

Charlie Brown of MTTs

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 17,745

Lndan has you on the right track, please read some of the other posts in the forum (even dated stickied posts) for more of an idea and feel free to post hands. gl.

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