NL$50 at Party.

They guy plays 34% of hands and raises preflop 14% of time. I was behind him and he raised 2.5. I thought for a while and reraised to 14 to put him all in.

He had QQ and won the pot. Do you do that? I always do against aggressive shortstacks with anything like JJ or better. Sometimes even with 99 but now I think I pushed a little much. .

Thoughts?

There is value in this play win or lose. He is short enough to not stress variance of being a 4:1 dog if you indeed are a dog, and aggressive enough to honestly feel that Jacks might be good. Lets say an observant player sees the same play and he has a deeper stack with KK or QQ and you just move all in preflop, he has reason to doubt your AA. Lose a little or win a little here to make a bigger play for deeper money elsewhere.

I definitely have my JJ or better list, and sometimes it drops to TT or 99 for me to make the same play, especially against shorter stacks. I like appearing like a gambler when ever I can because I'm not really.

Hand from earlier today:
I have TT on the button and shortish stack makes it $4, I make it $7 to clear out the bigger stack next to me and force him to raise all in, BB also a short stack calls and other guy pushes, I whack it all in and BB calls off his last $5.

Here is the clincher, the guy to my left was also a bigger stack, I raised he re-raised earlier and I moved in with KK, I told him I had Tens. Now he knows I will make a big play with tens... If I lose this pot I'm going to lose $15 or so, but I suspect it will force a huge error later against the deeper player. My meta-game is intact for playing a massive pot as a likely 4:1 favorite, let the games begin...

Back to the hand they showed 77 and 55 and I didn't get unlucky.