Aggression levels shorthanded

DeucesLive

Ok, so one thing I wonder about is just how wide and aggressive you should be when it gets shorter at the table- 4/3/2 handed? How much can you reasonably push before people start getting aggro back, and how wide a range should you be pushing with? Structure was incredibly quick, so aggression has to be the way, and I think this would have worked out better if not for the fact my opponent seemed to keep waking up with pretty powerful holdings- but is the action too much? Is there any way you can bet smaller and fold to a shove, or should I think more about folding marginals?

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
liam86	Small blind		500.00	500.00	9850.00
SPRING29	Big blind		1000.00	1500.00	22120.00
	Your hole cards	6 7
stargazzer	Fold
looneybob	Fold
DeucesLive	All-in		12757.50	14257.50	0.00
liam86	Fold
SPRING29	Call		11757.50	26015.00	10362.50
SPRING29	Show	Q A
DeucesLive	Show	6 7
Flop
		5 8 10
Turn
		9
River
		K
DeucesLive	Win	Straight to the 10	26015.00		26015.00

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
SPRING29	Small blind		600.00	600.00	15725.00
stargazzer	Big blind		1200.00	1800.00	12622.50
	Your hole cards	A 2
looneybob	Fold
DeucesLive	All-in		24215.00	26015.00	0.00
liam86	Fold
SPRING29	Fold
stargazzer	Fold
DeucesLive	Muck
DeucesLive	Win		3000.00		3000.00
DeucesLive	Return		23015.00	0.00	26015.00

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
looneybob	Small blind		800.00	800.00	7787.50
DeucesLive	Big blind		1600.00	2400.00	24415.00
	Your hole cards	4 8
liam86	Fold
SPRING29	Fold
stargazzer	Fold
looneybob	Call		800.00	3200.00	6987.50
DeucesLive	All-in		24415.00	27615.00	0.00
looneybob	All-in		6987.50	34602.50	0.00
DeucesLive	Unmatched bet		17427.50	17175.00	17427.50
looneybob	Show	Q K
DeucesLive	Show	4 8
Flop
		6 10 3
Turn
		2
River
		7
looneybob	Win	King high	17175.00		17175.00

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
SPRING29	Small blind		800.00	800.00	23175.00
stargazzer	Big blind		1600.00	2400.00	12622.50
	Your hole cards	9 8
looneybob	Fold
DeucesLive	All-in		16627.50	19027.50	0.00
SPRING29	Call		15827.50	34855.00	7347.50
stargazzer	Fold
SPRING29	Show	J A
DeucesLive	Show	9 8
Flop
		K 4 6
Turn
		K
River
		2
SPRING29	Win	Pair of Kings	34855.00		42202.50

beaneh

I like them all except the 84o one.

aggression ftw.

DeucesLive

yea I realised as I made the 84 move that I screwed up, he was way too short to do anything but call, stupid move but I'd watched him limp fold to others once or twice so I was shocked when he took a while to call and finally turned over KQ lol, makes me believe with an inferior folding he actually might have folded there!

Loki-Rogy

Hand 1 - Good shove, just enough chips to make it a tough call.

Hand 2 - seems a bit steep (20BB!), maybe raise/fold, depends how much people have back who are acting after you. If they're short enough to commit you if they 3bet, then I would just ship on them. Think I want to take it down preflop with A2s

Hand 3 - got to check this one behind preflop. They're short, so they're either going to panic call, or have a monster and are slowplaying it. Can easily assess the situation after the flop then.

Hand 4 - looking at stacks, there seems to be 24K, 15K, 19K, 23K. Having shown down 84o and 67o in recent hands, I might be tempted to tighten up just a little bit. There's about 80K total chips and 2400 in the middle pre-flop. It's pretty much a crapshoot now. People are going to be calling pretty light, so I would probably not play low connectors at this point.

KAM99

In Response to Re: Aggression levels shorthanded:

yea I realised as I made the 84 move that I screwed up, he was way too short to do anything but call, stupid move but I'd watched him limp fold to others once or twice so I was shocked when he took a while to call and finally turned over KQ lol, makes me believe with an inferior folding he actually might have folded there!
Posted by DeucesLive

I'm shocked that with so short a stack he hadn't shoved already.

YOUNG_GUN

wow loosey goosey deuces, i like the pressure your putting on each

1)Personally i would fold, although only getting paid by good hand think with your hand i'd want at least q8+in this spot with blinds
2) Dont like the shove, 3x raise would have been enough you got the chips so no need to go all in everyhand
3) terrible(sorry) but limper calls probably expecting you to shove on previous experiance you wake up with 84 and go all in, would fold straight away, mix it up a bit
4) Again personally i would fold as you want to wait for at least a picture card to push these marginal spots

obviously all of the above is my opinion so by all means not the correct way just how i would play