Weekly $180 live MTT Sunday night @ casino.

1st - $3690
2nd - $2560
3rd - $1720

Blinds: 8k 16k 2k

BTN (300k) Bad LAG running good.

SB (550k) Opening enough but folding to 3b shoves way too nitty especially short handed w/ such shallow stacks. Folded AJo and 66 after opening ~2.2x to 6BB and 8BB shoves 5 handed. Not a lot of experience as he showed both hands before folding. Folded to other jams after opening that he didn't show.

BB/H (220K) I've been aggressive and running good but just doubled up BTN.

OTTH

BTN folds, SB raise to 38k, H in BB w/ As8s.

H?

Thanks gang!

All in. Can't do anything else.

Insta-shove. As soon as he gets his chips over the line.

Good. Thanks guys. I did indeed snap jam and he TANK called with AKo! After the hand the peanut gallery couldn't believe I did that with A8s. The regs in my room are clueless tourney fish obviously. Just making sure I'm not going off the deep end.

That reminds me of a typical situation:
One player raises/folds too nitty once, twice or three times... and, suddenly, you shove over his openraise and he calls with ATo...

Obviously if he tanks with AK the EV+ of your shove is more than proven, even with wider range...

But, in this situation, against weak player, I think sometimes is better to call and play in position.

You can manipulate villain by calling, shoving good boards with more FEq than preflop, or folding without risking you tourney. Don't forget this is a high bubblefactor confrontation, you'd better play against the other player than the bigstack.

Let's see how it works on HRC:

https://imgur.com/a/LG2WH

It recommends that you call (+0.65) better than shove (+0.55)... But it's based on this villain ranges: 28% openraise and 8.8% call shove. It sounds pretty standard.

Personally I think I shove A8s a lot of times in this situation, but always seems good for me to remind icm implications, and tend to be more careful against chipleader.