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Originally Posted by QuinnthEskimo
When does stack depth approach folding?
This is by no means an exact science but in this spot I feel like 3-bet/folding becomes more defendable if stacks are $415 or deeper. Maybe it helps a little that villain's raise size seems a bit exploitable i.e. he is clearly committed to getting all the monies in preflop.
And if stacks were $1000 or deeper, I feel like its deep enough to flat call the 4bet and play post-flop. But I'm still worried about his large raise size (i.e. why not make it 110 with stacks this deep? Maybe he only raises this size with KK/AA?).
I think you've correctly identified that a decent lag can play a wider than normal range of hands preflop, be aware of their spewy image but when significant chips go in, they tend to have decent equity.
So if effective stacks were 430 or more and the same action unfolds, then I think its quite defendable to fold to the 4bet and take the low variance route here rather than stack off for 215bb preflop. Our 3bet and stack size should also be scary to villain and it just seems more likely he has AA/KK.
In any case, with 150bb stacks, I feel stacks are too shallow to get away from this.