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Old 04-16-2007, 11:39 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Default Re: When do you stop playing to win?

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With 31 left, I was about 20th in chips with 14,000. With the blinds at 2000/4000/no ante...As it turned out, there were a couple of stacks on other tables with <600 chips
For starters, if that's still the structure, iPoker (are they iPoker?) needs to flush it down the drain...

In any event, there's no doubt that you would shove here, but it's a sliding scale that's somewhat covered in TPFAP. If you had ~8K (so AJ is calling any two), there's a decent case to be made for folding 32o; that's a place where cEV and $EV diverge and cEV isn't really that positive to begin with. Once you have < 1 BB in this exact spot, it's probably worth stalling and folding in with pretty much anything except ~JJ+ (not AK), just because the random hand you get in the BB won't decrease your cEV by enough over the two big cards you have now for the extra $600 to stop mattering.

Playing with the ICM calculator (the STT forums on 2+2 have numerous links to it) will give you the exact math answer for a given spot, if you're willing to spend a bunch of time on it.
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