During a recent session, a couple of situations presented themselves that struck me as intriguing, not because they were unusual, but because they were fundamentally alike and yet extremely different. The two situations came up in tournaments I was playing. In the first, we were in the mid-stages of a sit and go and I was already pretty short-stacked. I had just 700 chips and, to make matters worse, I had to put in 150 before the cards were dealt since I was in the big blind. The action folded to the button, who happened to have a healthy stack of 2,500 chips and, of course, he raised. It was just a min-raise, though, which gave me a chance to make a move when the small blind folded. I had a decent hand, Q-J, but rather than just push like I frequently do when I'm short-stacked, I called. It may seem like an odd play, putting in another 150 chips and leaving myself with just 400, but there's a method to the madness. We know there's a good chance my opponent has nothing and was just raising to bully the blinds, so I could very well have the best hand. Considering the size ...