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Originally Posted by OmahaDonk
Result: Hero jammed and everyone folded. Btn tanked for a little bit, I think he was light and was saving face. I agree with Doc, I don’t think we get called by worse that often.
Hmmm...not sure that's the move I was suggesting, but I understand it, and I'm glad to hear it worked out.
Only a couple random additional thoughts, related to odd situations like this.
Adding additional blinds supposedly improves the game by spurring action, but I've sat in games where straddles had the opposite effect. Like, 6 of 9 at the table just want to play 2/5, but grudgingly agree to doing the $10 straddle, but now everyone is nitting it up, because 6 of 9 are playing outside their comfort zone.
The implication here is, yeah, we may be "only 25bb's deep", but there's a good possibility a lot of the people sitting at 2/3 aren't going to poke their head out and get involved with worse than TT or AJs when the BTN opens to $80. They're not looking at the $137 in the pot, or the $500 in their stack, they're just trying to figure out how big a hand they need to get involved for $80, with only $420 behind, versus folding and letting go of the $3 or $6 they already put in.
That's why I think reads are really important here. Playing 1-3-6-12-24 with 6 of 9 players deep-stacked and willing to push hundreds of dollars across the table, every hand, with worse than TT or AJs, is different than playing short-stacked with players who are mostly just looking to not lose $500 in less than a few hours.