Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Stop and Go poker strategy

The term "stop and go" refers to a tournament strategy situation in which at least one shortstack is involved and is always executed out of position. You stop preflop by calling and shove on flop ("go").
Examples:

1. You are comfortable and in the BB with 44. Now a pretty short stack (whose range is pretty wide since he is desperately in the needs for blinds)attacks your blind and you figure he will call a push preflop but might not let his stack ride on a missed flop. So you call preflop and push him all-in on flop.

2. You are short and only have time for a few more orbits and your blind gets raised. You think the raiser has a better hand but might fold it on flop if missed. You call, shove on any flop and sometimes take it down.

This only works when you have fold equity left. Don't do it vs someone with only 5M or less. And not against maniacs that will call anyways no matter which cards come on flop!

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