The Stop and Go play

Hey guys, what's up?

Today I'm gonna talk about a move that I find very interesting for you to make your game even more unpredictable: the call - all in also known as Stop and Go.

The Stop and Go is a very interesting feature to be used in tournaments, especially in advanced stages, but you must catch the right moment to use it in order to have success in most cases. And before you do it, you have to consider the amount of chips of the player that oppen raised versus your chip stack, since it is the most important thing for the success of the move.
The Call-All in take places at the blinds, since you GOTTA BE THE FIRST TO ACT post flop, and basically:

-You decide to call a PF raise "no matter what" cards came on the flop, you will SHOVE. Note that "no matter what" is in quotes because, let's figure that you've decided to make this move with 87s and the flop cames 654. In this case, of course you gonna leave your original strategy and you'll check to try to maximeze your value.

Now, forgetting about the exceptions, in most cases the flop won't help you at all and those are exactly the cases where you'll push and play against your opponent's flop.

Of course this move is only used when you're short stack and especially when you know that your Pre-flop takedown is minimum, in case that you dicide to go all in pre-flop. To illustrate it better, let's take a look at a couple of examples:

-At the first, blinds where 4k-8k and i had 64k in chips (pretty much below of the tourney's average). I was the BB. Another player that was being aggressive (and raising my blinds everytime) raises to 22k. I had Th9h and think: if i shove right here he'd have to put just 42k chips to win a 135k pot. He had something like 250k and the chances of him to fold were minimum.
On the other hand, my T9s where a strong hand and could make me won a lot of chips (so, fold was out of question). Moving all in pre-flop, the chances that he could have a higher card and be the favorite to win the hand where big, so i decided to just call.

Flop cames  Ad 7d 3s

Honestly, i did not think it was a bad flop, like i said, the player was raising too much and mostly my BB, cause i didn't had too many chips.
Therefore no guarantee that he could have an Ace or another strong hand. Then, finally,i shoved 42k, just with my T9s. But my cards doesn't matter anymore, but his cards yes.
In this case, the move worked, he quickly folded and i took a 93k pot (raising my stack size in 50%).
The important thing to understand about this concept is that at certain times, by playing this way you greatly increases your survival rate in the tourney.

Another classic case is when you have a small pocket pair or a weaker A.

Now, remember that this move only aplies when you move all in POST-FLOP (if you shove pre-flop, your takedown is 0) and the difference between win this extra chips is not so advantageous as will be when you increses your winning rates by moving all in post-flop.
Let's see another example where i was pretty much below of the tourney average. I had 10,600 chips and the blinds where 600/1200 in a decisive part of the game.

I was the BB i and got pocket 3. Everyone folded until a very LAG player 3x opned from the btn.
At this time, i decided that pocket 3 will decide my future at the tourney. So, i had two options:
1-Move all in and probably face a coin flip situation or
2-Go for the Stop and Go (wich i did), since in this situation, the move becomes the best option.
Let's see why:

Believing that my takedown pre-flop is zero (cause my opponent was deep stack), why not mixing the game a little bit and make a strong bet pos-flop and giving him a "free chance" to see the five cards?
With this move, i started to have a little bit more takedown rate on the flop, a higher winning percentual over the times that he won't call.

Eg: Let's assume that my opponent had QJo. In this case, if i'd shove pre-flop, i had 51% x 49%, wich means that i'd be eliminated in 49% and in 51% my stack would be 23k.
using the stop and go we gonna reduce to 30% times that he'd continue with his hand.
In 70% of the times i'd go to 16K in chips; another 30% of the times i'd still won sometimes when he dicides to call with a gutshot straight draw in flops like T92, KT5, etc...

So, with this move i was able to reduce 49% chances to be eliminated to just something around 27% 30%.By thinking this way, everytime that the difference that you would won in a pre-flop all in (in the example above 23K), and by making the stop and go for 16K, a small move becomes the better move in the long run.
Of course the Call-All in is a bold move, but if you analyze the scenario and pick up the best spot (and opponent) and a good "timing" of the game, this move can save you in some hard situations in a tourney.

Best of luck guys.