How Do You Play 15–20BB Stack in Late Game?”

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“When you’re deep in a tournament with a 15–20BB stack, do you play shove-or-fold,
or do you still use min-raise/fold lines?

What’s your approach to staying aggressive without punting off your stack?”
 
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arthur08 said:
“When you’re deep in a tournament with a 15–20BB stack, do you play shove-or-fold,
or do you still use min-raise/fold lines?

What’s your approach to staying aggressive without punting off your stack?”
With 15–20BB I mix both. If the table is tight, I still use min-raise/fold to steal more cheaply. If the table is 3-bet happy or I’m in late position, I go shove-or-fold to avoid getting owned postflop. The key is staying selective -pick good spots, attack weak blinds, and don’t level yourself into hero plays with that stack size.
 
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i play shove or fold with 100bb ..... go big or go home !
 
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Generally 15-20 BB is a good reshove stack but to deep to open shove. So typically we want to be min-raising or maybe going to 2,2BB at most, and then have some hands, that are folding to 3-bets and some, that are willing to get it in. We also want to stay away from opening hands, that dont block peoples 3-betting ranges and dont play well postflop with a shallow stack to pot ratio like small pairs or low suited connectors. We would rather open a hand like A4o, since it block hands like AA, AK and AQ, and then fold it to a 3-bet.
 
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20BB: mostly min-raise, mix some 3-bet shoves
17BB: balanced mix (roughly 50/50) between min-raise and shove
15BB: mostly shove, min-raise only with strong hands
12BB or less: pure push/fold
 
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austral said:
20BB: mostly min-raise, mix some 3-bet shoves
17BB: balanced mix (roughly 50/50) between min-raise and shove
15BB: mostly shove, min-raise only with strong hands
12BB or less: pure push/fold
Do you limp with a certain stack depth on speculative hands (like 32s)?
 
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miklcct said:
Do you limp with a certain stack depth on speculative hands (like 32s)?
God no
 
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