Hello,

I would love to know your thoughts on this hand as I am not sure whether this is jam or fold (I suppose call is not an option at all).

I'd be inclined to jam as there's a lot of dead money (chips) by the tight player calling but he can be slow playing monster (he would usually shove?) and the weird sizing does not help.

Thanks!

I have also a similar hand with 55 which I am totally not sure what to do

I'd be inclined to jam here as I have a good fold equity and there's extra dead money in the pot from the fish.

Thanks again for looking into it!

Hey,

adding a third hand as it's a pocket pair, I'd say standard call, but starting to doubt it, thoughts?

Thanks!

Adding a last hand as it's a pocket pair again, standard jam?

Really have problems to decide what to do with small pocket pairs when facing a lot of opponents after me.

Thanks!

Hand 1 I probably just fold because we have no fold equity and the open size is going to indicate a pretty strong range, as is the call of that size. You're basically hoping to get into a flip with overlay, but you're never getting a shove through. And with the ranges being relatively condensed and strong by the bet sizing, I'd guess you run into a bigger pair a substantial portion of the time.

Hand 2 I'm not sure what I would do but I think a squeeze shove is a better play here than in hand 1. If you like the spot, take it.

Hand 3 I probably just fold because it's so much of our stack and we're almost never better than flipping, and not the good kind of 55/45 flipping. I don't like calling off that large a percentage of my stack hoping to be 51/49. There isn't enough overlay from the ante to make the call worth it - and since we appear to be five-handed at what looks to be a normally full table, I can deduce we're pretty late in the tournament as well, which means the ICM effects make this call even worse.

Hand 4 once you're that short 55 is a definitive shove.

Fold every hand except for hand 4, hand 4 is a must shove if folded to you 100%.

Why do you think a tight player calling an utg larger preflop raise = dead money situation.

Well if you jam and gets called by only one players theres a lot of dead money. But yea both players have ranges that are stronger than 66 most likely.


Hand 1 - fold. No FE plus two strong ranges.

Hand 2 - fold. some FE but both players have ranges that 55 isn't doing well against.

Hand 3 - close but lean fold. vs a reg who jamming properly 22 is a call, but vs this nitty villain I think fold is good.

Hand 4 - standard jam

Do you think OPs 10bb jam into an 11 bb pot gets either player to fold when they have 20+ bb stacks?

Hand 1: I fold because we have no FE and it is likely that UTG has JJ/TT because of their sizing (could be AK but that happens less frequently)

Hand 2: I hate this spot against a UTG open. I have jammed a bit with 77-99 and typically lose every time against a bigger PP (I even lose when it is AK I am up against...). Calling is a possibility but leaves us with not enough chips when we don't hit a set (which happens over 87% of the time on the flop). I hate folding but I think I would here.

Hand 3: I fold every time here. At the Venetian I shoved all in with 33 pre-flop with about 13 bb's and the BB called with 22 and 15 bb's. LOL. He of course flopped a 2 and I was knocked out. At Foxwoods I have lost a number of times to 22-44 calling my jams when I have AJ+.

Hand 4: Auto jam for me with any PP.

well I would expect the pfr continues with a jam, which may fold out the cold caller, creating dead money. But like I said, I think its a clear fold anyways.