Are these shoves/calls OK?

Pysterman

I got to heads up in a 10-player sit and go.

These are three of the hands from the last few minutes.

I know that I got lucky a couple of times here, but after he lost he accused me of being a bingo fish. Are these calls OK?

BigBlue26	Small blind		400.00	400.00	14175.00
Pysterman	Big blind		800.00	1200.00	4625.00
	Your hole cards	4 Q
BigBlue26	All-in		14175.00	15375.00	0.00
Pysterman	All-in		4625.00	20000.00	0.00
BigBlue26	Unmatched bet		9150.00	10850.00	9150.00
BigBlue26	Show	4 A
Pysterman	Show	4 Q
Flop
		2 A 3
Turn
		5
River
		10
Pysterman	Win	Straight to the 5	5425.00		5425.00
BigBlue26	Win	Straight to the 5	5425.00		14575.00

Pysterman	Small blind		400.00	400.00	5025.00
BigBlue26	Big blind		800.00	1200.00	13775.00
	Your hole cards	9 10
Pysterman	All-in		5025.00	6225.00	0.00
BigBlue26	Call		4625.00	10850.00	9150.00
Pysterman	Show	9 10
BigBlue26	Show	A 9
Flop
		J Q 2
Turn
		K
River
		7
Pysterman	Win	Straight to the King	10850.00		10850.00

BigBlue26	Small blind		400.00	400.00	5550.00
Pysterman	Big blind		800.00	1200.00	13250.00
	Your hole cards	J K
BigBlue26	All-in		5550.00	6750.00	0.00
Pysterman	Call		5150.00	11900.00	8100.00
BigBlue26	Show	A 4
Pysterman	Show	J K
Flop
		3 2 J
Turn
		4
River
		2
Pysterman	Win	Two Pairs, Jacks and 2s	11900.00		20000.00

grantorino

I would fold1 but it depends how wide he openshoves

2+3 are fine

Pysterman

In Response to Re: Are these shoves/calls OK?:

I would fold1 but it depends how wide he openshoves 2+3 are fine
Posted by grantorino

He'd been on a blind-stealing bullying rampage for quite a few hands before that and I had been dealt absolute rubbish (T5, 63, 94, etc.).

I knew that Q4 wasn't great, but I'd be leaving myself with only 4BB if I folded again so just went for it.

jugglegeek

In Response to Re: Are these shoves/calls OK?:

In Response to Re: Are these shoves/calls OK? : He'd been on a blind-stealing bullying rampage for quite a few hands before that and I had been dealt absolute rubbish (T5, 63, 94, etc.). I knew that Q4 wasn't great, but I'd be leaving myself with only 4BB if I folded again so just went for it.
Posted by Pysterman

I'd say it's okay to push with Q4 from the button heads up when you have 5xBB and you are 3:1 behind in chips. But I wouldn't be calling with it from the big blind. If you find yourself in a heads up match with blinds so high and a big chip defecit then you can pretty much shove ATC from the button and just pray. The hope is that he is card dead and folds a few times before getting tilted and calling with a worse hand or a coin flip hand.

Once you are level in chips with around 6 bigs each then I'm afraid it's not poker anymore anyway. Any hand better than J7 is better than a random hand and you can just ship it and pray. You don't want to be calling too much though. 9Ts is a great hand to shove because if he does have a better hand than you, then you likely have live cards. Unfortunatly in this hand you didn't

KJ again you are 6 BBs deep. You went in with the worse hand each time here so I can see why your opponent was upset. But these heads up at the end of STTs are just bingo anyway if players have been trying to fold their way to the money around the bubble

Batkin88

1st is a fold as your never beating much here ever and 2 and 3 are fine considering stacks

DOHHHHHHH

Happy with all 3.

wp

step7

Folding the Q4 every time then shoving 80% of the hands I get next. As well as being unexploitable it allows you to take the moral high ground and call him a bingo fish if he call's light

rancid

Sometimes you gotta take a stand with any 2 if you bullied, doesn't make you a bingo fish ) Even though I love the phrase.

The other two hands look fine given it's HU.