Join Date: Jul 2006
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With this stack size I think I'd rather have the maniac on my left. We can limp in, watch him raise, see 3+ calls, and then just shove with our big hands. And if we decide to open our big hands ourselves, we'll never get outplayed postflop with this small stack.
I would have limped preflop. Good chance there is a bunch of limps to the maniac in the BB who attempts to take down the dead money, where we can then shove (where we should typically have pretty good equity against maniac range). Really hate opening, putting in 10% of our stack where we have no idea what anyone else at the table has yet, plus will hate most flops.
I would fold to the 3bet. Guy hasn't been 3betting, and we're a shortstack opening in EP, this guy is prepared to play for stacks. We're either flipping (with no real dead money) or crushed, and never crushing.
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