hi guys , this is 2.50 180 middle stages, i have a8o in bb and i am facing a shove from a opponent who is in Co, with a smaller stack, and with stats 10/10 over 33 hands and. Do you call in this spot with this hand?

[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $2.28 Buy-in (150/300 blinds, 25 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 2,290 (7.6 bb)
Hero (BB): 4,341 (14.5 bb)
UTG+1: 9,643 (32.1 bb)
UTG+2: 5,992 (20 bb)
MP1: 3,225 (10.8 bb)
MP2: 6,161 (20.5 bb)
MP3: 3,096 (10.3 bb)
CO: 3,235 (10.8 bb)
BTN: 1,515 (5.1 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8 A
5 folds, CO raises to 3,210 and is all-in, 2 folds, Hero calls 2,910

Flop: (6,795) 9 8 6 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (6,795) 7 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (6,795) Q (2 players, 1 is all-in)

oh yeah calling and super happy about it

yeah, i call and he has kings and i dont fell super happy.

Really? How low u calling Ax? This is borderline for me, and reads would swing it one way or the other...

I am a begginer at 2.50 180. and his move looks like a steal to me. I know now my call is bad and i should have a tighter range of 66+ AJ+

giving villain a 26% range which is totally reasonable the call is worth almost a whole BB. which is amazing. likely calling off A7o aswell and A3/4s, KJo,KTs likely even QJs. roddream that range is WAYYYY too tight to call, even 33s are a good call here

depending on villain is the better assumption.Lots of steals Lp, range wide of call, low stealing Lp, tight range, and u Must look at the stacksizes to , not assuming he is very light and give a random range. Some hand ranges programs say 99+ AQ +.

Unless you have several hundred hands on villain the stats are relatively meaningless, sure you can take them into account but at 33 hands any assumptions you draw are very likely super skewed. What's more important is I guess what people call population tendatencies (on avg what range does unknown villain shove here). The range I give the villain is exactly that. To be safe you could knock off a few of the weakest hands in the range I said to call with and you'd be good for sure.

When your looking at hand ranges your not thinking he's stealing or he's tight. The only thing that matters is what is he shoving and what is +Chipev to call with. Vice versa as well when you shove if it's +chipev you take the spot and not I'm going to steal now.

Also programs can give you all sorts of ranges based on the ranges you input. So if you input a range that's too tight it will give you a calling range that too tight.

Hope this helps

yea , helps a lot and i think the calling range is 22+, A2s+, a7 o, kq+ or something like that

if the stacks war bigger then a more tight range