hi!

i have 2questions

9players, 8 in $

new players

NL Hold'em - 1200/2400 Ante 300
Seat 1: (25,269)
Seat 2: me B (22,976)
Seat 3: SB(19,648)
Seat 4: BB(16,686)
Seat 5: (81,829)
Seat 6: (33,171)
Seat 7: (38,907)
Seat 8: (20,856)
Seat 9: (55,658)


Dealt to me[Ah Qh]
folded to player 9, he raises to 55,358, and is all in

i called

he [4s 4c]

im out,
1) call ok with smaller stacks from other players?
2) few hands before i folded 88 when player 5 oppended UTG for 2.5BB, was it ok ?

If he was a complete nit then I very much doubt he'd be shoving that deep with worse than AQ. It being suited in nature gives you obvious implied odds, but I don't think it makes a significant difference here. Unfortunately you are short stacked so you have no real choice but to call. Presumably you would have open shoved yourself given the opportunity?

Against shorter stacks, I'd still re-shove OTT. You want a heads up pot for there I feel. Multi way would just get ugly.

Again, that deep personally I'd have still shoved 88. Unless you had a significant read from the UTG that he simply does not open UTG with more than 10% percent of his range.

With 10BB and blinds/antes/min bets/3x out there, it becomes so much more valuable to be in there shoving on folks with your good hands. If you had 20BB, 40BB then we have room to play some cards, But with 10... ship ftw.

with the 88 i thought that he is opening with small range from this position. i definitive push ther TT and ATs

we are going to have enough equity to call with AQs. As for the 88 hand , it really does depend on v utg opening range , if he's on the tighter side , folding is fine, but if he's loose and opens up with a somewhat wider range of hands i'd be happy to GII.