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If you play this hand, you're pretty much committed to showing this down, aren't you?
I'd shove 66 readless there. Calling preflop and check folding the flop would be the exception, which I would only do with a good read vs very passive players. There's no such thing as "committed to showing down" when you're drawing to two outs at bad odds.
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do you do better by pushing now?
I think so in the vast majority of cases.
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With 11 BB in your stack, your M is less than 4, and your stack is on life support. You pretty much should be shoving any hand you play,
I call some hands in the big blind situation presented above. Basically it's done with hands that are too strong to fold yet too weak to shove. It's a small number of hands that I'll call. Antes help the cause here.
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you've just got a completely different perspective
I think this is true. You seem to be focusing on winning a few extra pots and stealing a little bit of equity by making better hands fold. Unfortunately, your opponents are aware of the stop n go play and they'll see right through it when you donk shove the flop. Hint: you should probably check raise or check call all in with strong hands there on the QJ2 flop. Do you see how this takes away value from the stop n go?
Instead of thinking of how to achieve your goals of winning a few extra pots and stealing a little bit of equity, you should be thinking about the bigger picture and how to construct a solid strategy as a whole. This all starts with thinking about the size of your investment relative to the blinds and antes. It's the most basic poker principle of measuring risk/reward.
I believe that's the path to winning more tourneys.