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Originally Posted by MorrowCosom
My interpretation of the chart for calling (2nd chart) is that the big blinds remaining of the smallest stack had to be 20BB+ for me to make that call.
The part that confuses me (if I have not already screwed up) is that the 20+ goes all the way from 33 to AA. To be damn sure it is not saying fold aces to a shove if the effective BB for the stacks is not 20+.
I'm not sure I fully understand the push/fold charts, but the way I tend to use them when I'm considering calling is to look at the effective stack size, and then see which hands have a figure that is higher than that.
In your example, the effective stack was 16bb. If villain shoves 16bb, then you can call with any hand that is rated 16+. It is theoretically profitable to call with all suited aces and 33+ (20+), A3o+ (16.6), K8s+ (17.6), K9o+ (17.1), Q9s+ (16.1), QJo+ (19.5) and JTs (18).
It would
not be correct to call with pocket deuces, because the figure there is 15. You'd only call with 22 if villain had 15bb or less. If villain was way down on 8bb, then your calling range would include hands like T9o and J7s. Although those hands seem like junk, if villain only had 8bb, then he should be shoving J7o.