Knowing When To Push All In
propclothing wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Duff and I sat down the other night to record one of our poker podcasts. We were playing a 30 seat MTT and as usual we kept a low profile for most of the game and backed out to let the lunatics knock each other out.
Combine this with a fairly cold deck and before we knew it, we were one of the short stacks at the table.
Usually when you are playing short stack, you have a limited time before you can make your move. You are looking to be dealt any Ace, any pocket pair, or any two big face cards.
However, another angle that you should explore when deciding to make a do or die push, is your table position. Through playing against our opponents in the early stages of the tournament, we were able to establish who were the weak players, who were the lunatics, who were the aggressive [...]
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