Poker.com – Any Two Will Do
Category: Poker
www.poker.com – In Holdem, there will always be infrequent situations which require you to simply push the chips no matter what cards you are holding. Most of the time it is fair to say that poker has far more skill involved and choosing hands wisely is important, but if you have so few chips that you are almost out, and find yourself in the small blind, most of the time I will push in with any two cards. It is very helpful if the action has been folded around to you of course, because then you have a chance to be heads up with the big blind.
The fact is that when you are critically short stacked, you cannot afford to give a small blind away. Also, considering your opponent in the big blind is likely to call you with any two cards as well, you have a fair chance of doubling up. Another instance of being able to push all in with any two cards, would be if you are heads up and have your opponents chip stack down to almost nothing. Needless to say, even if you have (7,2) you should not just give them your blind, as usually at this point the blinds are very high. For the chance to eliminate your opponent and win the tournament, any two cards are good enough to take a chance with. You know that if your opponent is critically low on chips, they will gamble with any two cards as well, so again, you probably aren’t in terrible shape anyway, no matter what you have.
In many ways these are the ugly aspects of the game when the chips are down, and rely entirely upon chance to revive or crush your tournament, but sometimes in poker you are forced to simply gamble, because you have pot odds to do so.