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So, if pushing over late-position raises

So, if pushing over late-position raises from aggressive players is hugely profitable, why don’t you make these plays all the time? If you do this too often, peoples’ calling ranges will open up and you will lose your fold equity maing the play –EV. Also, if called, you have a 65-percent chance of busting out of the tournament. Once you lose, you can no longer make these +EV plays. This should be enough to keep you from pushing too often. You should also be very careful about pushing over the same person numerous times. Quite often, if an opponent raises three times and you go all-in each time, he will eventually call with a fairly wide range and have you in a bad situation. That brings us to the topic of which hands you should go all-in with over a loose opponent’s initial raise. Push only with very premium hands if you think you’ll be called fairly often, and push with a wide range if you think you’ll rarely be called. You can plug hand ranges into the equation above to come up with the proper ranges. The best hands to push over raises are generally pairs, big cards and suited connectors, because they are usually in decent shape against most opponents’ calling ranges, and hands containing an ace because it’s then harder for your opponent to have an ace, and you know you usually have at least 30-percent equity when called.

Now that you know I like to go all-in

Now that you know I like to go all-in a lot over raises when I have 5-10 times that raise, when should you just call the raise instead of pushing? I like to just call against players that either tend to give up or always continuation-bet post-flop. If you know a player will raise and then check-fold most flops when he misses, you usually have more value by just calling, and then taking him off every hand he misses, which he will usually identify by checking. Against players that continuation-bet 100 percent of the time, you can push over their bets on boards that tend to miss them, as they will usually fold on the flop and you will win a larger pot. In this situation though, you need to flop at least some outs, like overcards, or an overcard and a gutshot. Basically, if your opponents play poorly post-flop and you have a good idea of how they play, just call with hands that play well post-flop, like A-A, 5-4s and 2-2. Push with hands that flop poorly, such as A-x, K-x and 9-7o.