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Originally Posted by au4all
Here's what I'd recommend:
1. Ask yourself what range you think the Villains who called have
2. Figure out what part of that range you think calls a shove. Do you agree that Villains would have raised strong hands and are folding almost everything to a shove? If so, would you shove aces in this spot?
3. Calculate an EV
I think this choice is a clear second best:
Or you could look at your cards, decide they're pretty-looking, shove, and then create a thread on 2+2 hoping that everyone tells you you did the right thing.
Gee I'm sorry for posting a live low-stakes NL hand in the Live Low-stakes NL forum. I didn't just look at my hand and shove, but I also didn't want to include a bunch of analysis in the OP because someone quickly responded and told me to pose the question as is rather than influencing the discussion early on.
Anywho, my thoughts were similar to most of y'all... it's great news if a shove can get a low / medium pocket pair to fold, and if they call it's still not a disaster. I think my image at this point was TAG, but I had been caught bluffing in a couple mid-sized pots. That might mean pocket pairs are more stubborn if they're perceptive players, but I think it also means AT thru AQ might also pay me off. I didn't really have any reads on the CO, but I think sb would have reraised any premium hand and he had frequently limp-folded preflop so a call-fold seems plausible too.
You make a decent case for the non-shove reraise, Mr_Doomed, but we're not always first to act as you suggested since one caller was in sb. What do we do if the sb calls my reraise then shoves a flop that I whiffed? I like the idea that mid-pairs might put in more money preflop then fold on flops with high cards, but I'm still afraid stacks aren't deep enough for it to work here.
Last edited by tuds38; 08-22-2014 at 03:20 PM.