The Poker Quiz
You are playing in an online heads-up sit and go. Your opponent
has been playing aggressive and through some well-timed moves
he has you out chipped T2,500 to T500. With the blinds at
15/30 he raises from the button to T150. You are dealt 4c4h.
The Solution
Call, with intentions of pushing your remaining
T350 on any flop.
Greg Raymer is credited with this patented move known as
the stop-and-go. When you are short stacked and first to act,
you call with a middle to low pair before the flop and commit
yourself to pushing all-in no matter what comes on the flop.
This forces an aggressive opponent to fold unless he hits
the flop hard. You have just enough chips to call the pre-flop
bet to leave yourself with enough to get an opponent to fold.
With a short stack you are willing to take the risk by simply
calling pre-flop, only to push all your chips in on any flop.
Flops with high cards are not necessarily bad, as if he has
a small pair he would fold.
