{"id":34,"date":"2004-11-16T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dtrdev\/2004\/11\/16\/when-to-push-stack-size-relative-to-bl"},"modified":"2004-11-16T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T14:28:08","slug":"when-to-push-stack-size-relative-to-blinds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/2004\/11\/16\/when-to-push-stack-size-relative-to-blinds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"When to Push &#8211; Stack Size Relative to Blinds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a46'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>A good point came up in an email message from a reader.  When do you decide that you need to push all-in given the constraints of stack size relative to the blinds?<\/P> <P>In <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dtr\/2004\/11\/13#a44\">my last post,<\/A> I noted how I went all in with 1040 in chips on Q9o from the cutoff, six players left, 100\/200.  My basic rule of thumb is to measure chip size relative to 4 times the combined size of the blinds.  Too far beyond that point and a double through might be entirely meaningless.  I adjust accordingly if the table is short-handed (because blinds come around faster and because hand values rise, so half decent hand become more push-worthy).  Of course, I take into account the players I&#8217;m up against, their stack sizes, any reads I might have on them.  But I start from this basic rule of thumb.<\/P> <P>This is something I should look into more in reading the various online\/blogger guides to SNGs, but, if you have any answers, shout em out. Do you have a rule of thumb in this regard?  What do you base your decisions on?<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good point came up in an email message from a reader. When do you decide that you need to push all-in given the constraints of stack size relative to the blinds? In my last post, I noted how I went all in with 1040 in chips on Q9o from the cutoff, six players left, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dtrstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dtr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}