The advantage of pushing with anything before you are truly crippled is that the bet is still a strong raise, so if anyone calls and loses it'll really hurt, so you'll more likely be able to pick up the blinds. This is something that is discussed at length in Harrington's second book when he talks about being in zones and what your "M" is. M is the ratio of your stack to what's on the table preflop (blinds + antes if any) which also turns out to be the cost to fold every hand for one round. So your M is basically the number of rounds you can sit and wait before you're blinded down. It's a little better than calculating the number of BB you have left since it gives a number that means something, plus it accounts for antes if there are any. The concept of M was first written about by a backgammon player.
So long story short, once you're M gets to five or below your only move is an openning all-in move. If anyone limps or raises before you, you fold, with very few exceptions. You don't want anyone in the pot before you, because you want your raise as big as possible, to give the worst odds for calling. Every time you pull this off, your M goes up one, and you buy yourself one more round. Also if someone is limping in, they have a good enough hand that they're investing 1 BB, they may invest more.
HoH II is a good book in that it talks a lot about playing with different sized stacks. I may look for the Skylansky book that you liked, what's the title? and one more thing, what did you mean by the trick you play at Foxwoods, I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Date: 2006-08-03 04:23 (UTC)This is something that is discussed at length in Harrington's second book when he talks about being in zones and what your "M" is. M is the ratio of your stack to what's on the table preflop (blinds + antes if any) which also turns out to be the cost to fold every hand for one round. So your M is basically the number of rounds you can sit and wait before you're blinded down. It's a little better than calculating the number of BB you have left since it gives a number that means something, plus it accounts for antes if there are any. The concept of M was first written about by a backgammon player.
So long story short, once you're M gets to five or below your only move is an openning all-in move. If anyone limps or raises before you, you fold, with very few exceptions. You don't want anyone in the pot before you, because you want your raise as big as possible, to give the worst odds for calling. Every time you pull this off, your M goes up one, and you buy yourself one more round. Also if someone is limping in, they have a good enough hand that they're investing 1 BB, they may invest more.
HoH II is a good book in that it talks a lot about playing with different sized stacks. I may look for the Skylansky book that you liked, what's the title? and one more thing, what did you mean by the trick you play at Foxwoods, I have no idea what you're talking about.