M Is Low But Action In Front

[jmbreslin 0]

I hesitated on this one and wasn't sure what to do. UTG was a kosher player, so his UTG raise (though min) probably meant he had a pretty good hand. With the blinds at 75/150 things are starting to get pretty desperate for me, so I wondered if this would have been a good opportunity for me to use what fold equity I had left and see if I could possibly chase them both off the hand. This is a $1.20 single table on Stars.With respect to my image, I had been playing pretty kosher but suffered a bad beat fairly recently (TT losing to AK). I was able to build my stack back up to about 1200 with a few good pushes, the last one 3 hands ago.PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)BB (t1670)UTG (t3715)MP (t3720)CO (t2025)Hero (t1065)SB (t1305)Preflop: Hero is Button with Q, A. UTG raises to t300, MP calls t300, 1 fold, Hero???Would you push-reraise here or throw it away?

[wsox8 10]

easy push in my mind...and TT vs. AK is not a bad beat.

[meservery 0]

Push. But you dont have any fold equity.Assuming you shove and action folds back to UTG, he only has to put in 765 into a pot of 1890 to call.

[jmbreslin 0]

Good point about the fold equity, I forgot to account for the size of the pot.Maybe TT vs. AK doesn't classify as a bad beat, but it's certainly an annoying one. 57% is more than a coinflip, and it was just the latest in a long string of losses as the favorite. But that's beside the point here.

[litlebullet 0]

I'm pushing this with 1800 chips 12 bb or less. You are obv. getting called but aq isn't a bad hand.

[jmbreslin 0]

First in I'm pushing this without hesitation but with the raise and call in front there is an increased chance I'm either dominated or a slight dog to an underpair if I'm called. That's what worries me here. But it sounds like there is consensus that I should push anyway.

[cdipierr 0]

Don't worry about being a slight dog to an underpair. The amount of money in the pot will make up the % edge your opponent has. The only hands you don't want to see are AA, KK, QQ and AK. And I suspect you'll get called by AJ, so that makes up a lot of the downside as well.

[YBravo 0]

easy pushUTG maybe maybe has you, but there are a lot of situations where you have a good shot at slightly more than doubling, if not tripling.

[jmbreslin 0]

Okay, so chalk this one up to a weak decision on my part. I threw it away.I've realized from looking at my recent histories that when I'm short-stacked I'm not capitalizing on pushing opportunities when they arise, whether in a situation like this or when I do have fold equity to open-push. I end up waiting a bit too long for solid hands and the result is significantly reduced FE when I do push. Gotta plug that leak.