Villain is an unknown and the only at the table who seems decent. Other players are recs or bad regs. I havent plugged it in HRC but i think icm wise its a fold. But if i call and win its such a perfect setup to win. So might be +$e to make a slight negative icm call. I dunno. Your thoughts?


PokerStars - $7.34+$0.66|2500/5000 Ante 500 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

CO: 11.48 BB (VPIP: 27.38, PFR: 24.32, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 86)
BTN: 16.66 BB (VPIP: 18.39, PFR: 15.79, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 87)
SB: 8.11 BB (VPIP: 15.69, PFR: 17.50, 3Bet Preflop: 18.75, Hands: 51)
Hero (BB): 11.95 BB
UTG: 5.8 BB (VPIP: 19.23, PFR: 16.67, 3Bet Preflop: 13.04, Hands: 81)

5 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2 BB) Hero has As Qh
fold, fold, BTN raises to 16.56 BB and is all-in, fold

Think you have to snap this off dont you? Its verging on a fist pump.
Payout is top 3 heavy so it might be close with icm calcs but Button can be shoving reasonably wide here and you probably smash his range. He may even min open with real premium hands so you should be in decent shape.
I couldnt fold this anyway.

fisting and pumping

Calling this

Yeah this is a snap surely

Yeah this is no where near a fold. Calling wayy wider, fist pump high five the cat call

okay. According to HRC its a break even icm call when villain is shoving around 24%. He is probably shoving looser so
icm wise its also a call.

Followup:

How wide is villain shoving here? And what is our calling range?

The takeaway from villain's stats shouldn't be that he's medium-tight, it should be that he's good.

That means he will be shoving really wide in this spot. I agree it's a fist pump call.

+1

Villain will have to be pushing tighter than 19% of hands to make this -$EV wise and i would be shocked to see someone shoving tighter than 30% in these spots nowadays...



Agree with this first pump snap call.

I wouldn't use S-C ordering for this purpose.

please dont ever fold

middle button with a smile on my face