multiway aggression with shallow stack
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 74
2/5 NL cash game
Hero has been characterized tonight as a "pro" and a "nitty nerd". Been very card dead tonight. Stack of 299.
V1 seems a little nitty too. Stack covers.
V2 is a good player. He has been playing 3bet and 4bet light games with his buddies on his left and right but probably would not get too crazy against me and V1. Stack covers.
Utg + 1 limps, V1 raises to 30 in hijack, Hero calls with AQs in button, V2 3 bets to 100 in BB, utg + 1 folds, V1 calls. Hero?
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 6,237
V2 probably isn't light raising out of the BB but you have 60BB, a good hand and there is $160 in the pot already. The only bad option is calling, either shove or fold. If you shove your happy if villain folds because you are probably way behind or coin flipping if he calls. With dead money in the pot that is more then half your stack you should be fine with coin flipping. The problem here is that AK also has you dominated and a villain with AK isn't folding.
How deep are V1 and V2 here? It makes a bit of difference because the deeper they are the lighter V2 can be raising.
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,662
My first q would be why are we sitting at 60bb here? It's an awkward stack size in this spot, but makes our decision pretty easy, with either jam or fold. I like the jam we have blockers to aa, and are at ~30% at worst to everything else.160 in the pot, 270 to win 430 is pretty close with no fe so I probably just jam.
