[chris]

Here is a question raised by recent home game play. If you belive yourself to be a significantly better player than your opponent should you ever put yourself all in before the flop and remove your advantage of out playing them in the betting rounds. Blinds were 300 and i pulled my opponent in for his remaining 600 chips he cracked my pocket cowboys and i was left with 700 against his 1800. Two hands latter he had won. Is any hand a big enough favorite to get all your money in with if you know you can grind your opponent down?
PS using a odds calculator I was surprised to see i was a little better than 3-1 favorite over his Ace 6 can some one show me how this is worked out?

[johnf]

Ive always been very against any all in move when you don't have the nuts. And if you DO have the nuts then an all in is still a bad play IMO cus unless you KNOW they will call, you dont want to scare them away. The only reason it is done so much is because they ONLY show the most exciting hands on the TV tournaments. And the most exciting would be the hands where someone loses a lot of chips or someone goes all in.

Which causes all the newer players to want to go all in every other hand. It is a ridiulous play and you could just as easily get your point across by betting half your stack as opposed to all of it. But then people cry when they go all in preflop or on the flop and get outdrawn.

[BigAl]

I'm always wary of going all in, especially preflop. I know sometimes it's essential to double up before the blinds kill you, but I really prefer to see a flop and have something solid in hand before going all in.

He wasn't the favourite of course, but the favourites don't always win do they.