JPK Wed May 20, 2009 1:24 pm
First of all, where do they have 3k $50 stts online anymore, or is this live? I'd kill to play some 3-500s with such a structure lol
This is standard, yet perhaps a tad spewy from your fellow big stack. Obviously it's player dependent on your read, but on the bubble of an stt the dynamic is usually such for the big stack to bully. If it's two bigs and two smalls, if the other player is semi decent he will pile all sorts of pressure on you, knowing that it's hard for you to call to get the advantage of 3 handed/HU, in short he's playing for 1st. I mean, you've posted on a forum asking if QQ is a call here, so you've already thought about laying it down so it says it all really, doesn't it?
The question for the long term is, because this situation comes up all the time, how wide is oppos range? What do you need to call? QQ here is a snap call, so is AK/AQ/JJ and probably TT under ANY circumstances. But when you're sat there with 99/88/AJ/AT, this is where the best stt players excel from standard/breakeven/small losers & winners by consistently making the right call/fold.
Also, put yourself in your oppos shoes, is a push correct 100% of the time here? Could he raise to 2200 with junk and pass to a shove? Always be thinking.
In this situation he can only have AK that you're "worried" about. He isn't open shoving QQ+, probably not JJ/TT. Everything else is 30% at best.
So if QQ is a call, so is JJ/TT/AQ and perhaps even AJ/AT/KQ DEPENDING ON THE OPPONENT. If oppo shoves 100% of the time here you have to make a choice of either taking a stand or waiting 'til the bubble bursts. Neither is wrong, but don't change your mind 2 or 3 orbits in because he's already won the battle.
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