Full Tilt, $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em Cash, Rush, 6 Players
CO: $0.53 (5.3 bb)
BTN: $3.35 (33.5 bb)
SB: $7.35 (73.5 bb)
BB: $38.47 (384.7 bb)
Hero (UTG): $28.76 (287.6 bb)
MP: $16.04 (160.4 bb)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with T
9
Hero raises to $0.30, MP folds, CO raises to $0.53 and is all-in, 2 folds, BB raises to $1, Call??
What would you do given the fact that we are in position?
Dont know much about BB.
Hi gAsheks
Preflop: I think that folding (despite the stacks) would not be a huge mistake. BBs range looks strong when he does that (looks like he wants you in) and we don't really know how to proceed on many boards.
Hey gasheks. I am not much of a player but here's my view.
On the basis of being first-to-act, I would agree with Bogdan and fold. In my view, at 10NL we don't have to play speculative hands to balance our range at a level where many players either don't know how to play well. I tend to play a more polarised range of occasionally raising pairs 22-66 along with the usual TAG hands, as if called I can hit a monster hand on flops and have deception too.
In this instance, it's close to me between folding and calling. You do have position and you're both deep-stacked, but I would be wary of a lot of boards as top-pair would be in big trouble to any action he might give. The benefit here is if you do fold, you at least get to see his hand becaise of the forced showdown against the short-stack, so folding straight away has its benefits too, along with saving some blinds with a hand that is most likely behind.
Hope that helps. Good luck at Rush, I am looking to start playing 10NL Rush too at the end of the month, so these hands will be great to discuss about.
Originally posted by PerryPlaysPoker
Hey gasheks. I am not much of a player but here's my view.On the basis of being first-to-act, I would agree with Bogdan and fold. In my view, at 10NL we don't have to play speculative hands to balance our range at a level where many players either don't know how to play well. I tend to play a more polarised range of occasionally raising pairs 22-66 along with the usual TAG hands, as if called I can hit a monster hand on flops and have deception too.
In this instance, it's close to me between folding and calling. You do have position and you're both deep-stacked, but I would be wary of a lot of boards as top-pair would be in big trouble to any action he might give. The benefit here is if you do fold, you at least get to see his hand becaise of the forced showdown against the short-stack, so folding straight away has its benefits too, along with saving some blinds with a hand that is most likely behind.
Hope that helps. Good luck at Rush, I am looking to start playing 10NL Rush too at the end of the month, so these hands will be great to discuss about.
Thanks for replying.
Its not about balancing. I dont care about it at all. Whats the point of it @ nl10? 
I just simply want to play as much as possible vs "weaker" opponents.
I dont like low pockets. Hard to make money especially OOP.
Im just adopting to fast fold poker. Planing to moving on sooner or later.
GL with rush!
That's a good point. I don't know how good you are. For me, I play more polarised because my hand reading isn't that great post-flop. I also play full-ring more, so that's a little tight by me perhaps.
Originally posted by gAsheks
What about not opening?Wanted to play vs BTN, SB.
Opening it is perfectly fine. Playing this with initiative is fine and we have fishy guys behind.
