Shove
To shove is to move all in, putting your entire stack in the pot in one action.
It is the only bet that removes every later decision, which is exactly what makes it useful with a short stack. There is no turn to misplay and no river to be bluffed on, and the opponent has to answer with their whole range at once.
With a deep stack it is a much blunter tool. Shoving 200 big blinds into a pot of 20 risks a great deal to win very little, and it folds out precisely the hands that were about to pay you.
an example
your cards
You have 10 big blinds in the cutoff and everyone folds to you. Moving all in with ace nine wins 1.5 big blinds uncontested most of the time, and when it is called you are rarely worse than a coin flip.
This example is made up. The real one is in your own hand history: find shove in your own hands and see how often it came up and what it cost you.
related terms
Push or fold
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All in
A player is all in when they have put their last chip in the pot, which means they cannot bet, raise or fold again in th ...
Short stack
A stack is short when it is small relative to the blinds, usually under about 30 big blinds, which removes most of the r ...
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