Too much?

[Deadmoney]

Dear All,

I insta-shoved.........too much ..... My thoughts were by 4-betting am i not defining my hand too much?


PokerStars GAME #642011524002028:  HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($0.25/$0.5) - 2008/10/03 - 17:18:02 (ET)
Table 'Cake_ Pebble Beach 11524' 6-max Seat #10 is the button
Seat 1: deadmunny ($98.20 in chips)
Seat 2: LLiv*** ($54.80 in chips)
Seat 3: Cosm*** ($72.50 in chips)
Seat 8: RICK*** ($50.00 in chips)
Seat 9: luvs*** ($52.55 in chips)
Seat 10: Crow*** ($46.80 in chips)
deadmunny: posts small blind $0.25
LLiv***: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to deadmunny [ ]
Cosm***: folds
RICK***: folds
luvs***: folds
Crow***: calls $0.50
deadmunny: raises $2.00 to $2.50
LLiv***: raises $6.50 to $9.00
Crow***: folds
deadmunny: raises $89.20 to $98.20 and is all-in




Regards David

[verstehen]

No way, this is good because limp-re-raise is donk-speak for "I have a good hand I want to commit to, OMG I TRAPPED YOU."  Ship it in. 

[Deadmoney]

No way, this is good because limp-re-raise is donk-speak for "I have a good hand I want to commit to, OMG I TRAPPED YOU."  Ship it in. 

actually Adam he was the BB, I raised from the Sb

Regards David

[lowraise]

overkill in my book tbh but then i'm still learning all this push all in malarcay

[verstehen]

whoops i misread the hh.  Perhaps I'd re-raise smaller but I don't fault a shove.  In his situation I fear a small re-raise MORE than a shove as a shove is likely AK not wanting to play this hand OOP.  By reversing that and shoving with AA you may get a call from inferior hands. 

[Tony]

I think shoving is fine.  A pot-sized reraise is to roughly $28, and he only has a little over $40 left in his stack.  Also a shove often looks weaker than a smaller reraise when the pot is this large, a smaller four bet just looks suspicious and screams "I have a monster".