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Originally Posted by gregz41
You call because the pot odds indicate you have the required equity vs a realistic 8bb jam.
I don’t mind the open, but despite a slight +ev I’m folding.
These straight equity calculations never take into account the cost of stack utility.
We lose here 2:1 and drop to 11bb then go through the blinds in a couple of hands to be likely left with less than 10bb
Yes we have odds to call but stack utility doesn’t change significantly between 18-30bb. Hero will still have significant leverage on a 3bet shove or flop multi check/jam. However we all know that FE largely vanishes at 10bb.
It’s hard to assign a value to stack utility, so we don’t. The true value likely varies from player to player also. But the value is real and substantial.nonetheless.
In short, we don’t gain as much by getting to 30bb as we lose by dropping to 10bb.