Join Date: Jul 2012
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It can be a fold depending on how you define the opponent's ranges.
Not many complete air hands are shoving here where then can easily just donk at a lower value. If the the villain is capable of shoving complete air here, then he is capable of doing it more than once and once you catch this in action, you can make note and profit off this guy in the long term. So for now, we can leave this part out of the equation because you can fold her and still catch him later.
The real question becomes how many Qx hands is he shoving here.
AQ is a chop, and Q2, Q8, KQ all beat you. How many QJ, QT, Q9, Q7, Q6, Q5, Q4, Q3 hands does he have?
For most standard opponents, I'd expect KK to raise pre and I wouldnt expect defends worse than Q7. Thus I'd put his range at 22,88, AQ - Q7. The call and fold is pretty close here.
Maybe he had KJs, TJ, AJ of spades? He has more flushes than you and you heavily repped the queen so flush jams are reasonable. I think the fold is more profitable here, but it's close. I wouldn't be able to fold your hand in that moment either.
If you call with flushes here, then you can make the argument that you can fold trips. Calling with all trips, flushes, and boats here might make your calling range too big against his shove range.