Hi guys, I have some hands from my saturday session for your review, cause I would like to know if I played it correctly or not, so here´s the first one.

Here I opened UTG+2 with 36 bbs with TT to 2.25x. I had been about 15 hand at this table so no reads yet. HJ shoves with 35bbs, every one folds and it is back on me. I called, cause I gave him range of 77 to JJ, maybe some QQ, and then AK, AQ and some suited connectors maybe suited one gappers (about this part I am not so sure - cause suited connectors and gappers I would 3bet to a smaller sizing, maybe to like 7-8bbs), I would think that AA, and KK, and accorging to me also QQ he would 3bet smaller, cause he wants some action from me. So I called the shove cause I am ahead of his range as I precieve it. Is my assumption wrong and I should be much tighter here and if so, what would you call, or you would you call with TT? I am not results oriented, cause after the hand I was happy about my call, I just want to double check villains range. The tourney was mini daily marathon on pokerstars, about 1000 left and about 500 gets paid, rebuy period already ended.

Standard call unless you have a read that he's tight and will only do this with a strong range. But I think your instincts are usually correct that this kind of stupidly large shove is often a hand that doesn't really want a call, like 88-JJ/AQ+.

But even against a full range of 88-AA/AJs+/AQ+ you have almost 48% equity, so with the dead money in the pot it is a call.

P.S. Your read was correct and you got your money in good. It just didn't work out this time. But you have to take spots like this to build a stack for a deep run.

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Thx for your reply, I thought so. I played quitte a bit during christmas and I spot some general tendencies in players, which helps me in spots like this, so I ran some equity calculations and now I know how to play these spots. I just wanted to double check, that the range that I assigned to villain is actually the one which most of the field is using.

You will encounter players making unusually large shoves with AA/KK for whatever reason but it is generally a pretty reliable bet sizing tell.

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