Local Live tournament £25, blinds are 500/1000 with a 1k button ante.

I have 90bb in MP

BB has 9bb, got a shove through the previous hand with T6o and is quite clearly ready to go home and going with any hand.

I'm dealt 66, folds to me, I raise 3bb, HJ calls (~80bb stack) and SB calls (~150bb stack) and sure enough the BB shoves for 9bb.

Action back on me, my options are:

Fold:
Seems way to weak, 66 is clearly ahead of BB range

Call:
Caps my range, allows players behind to call and go multiway with no side pot.
Gives the option for players behind to squeeze me out the pot.

Raise:
Isolates weak 3b range of BB, prevents players 4betting light behind.


Thought's on the correct move to make here?

Flatting is clearly exploitable but I think the players left to act have a fairly capped range as well so unless I think the two behind are good thinking players and will take advantage of that I flat. We can mix in some flats with AA/KK here so that our range is more balanced. Folding sucks but it's wayyyy too loose to jam and sticking in 22bb and folding to the 5b is the worst of our options.

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19.5 bigs of money in the pot, a 4b squeeze to 22-23 bigs isn't the worst option at all. The times we're going to get 5b on are rare and the times they're going to flat 22bbs after flatting 3b are pretty small, too. Even if someone calls, we still have a playable hand and could always bink a set or a big low-card flop. Most of the hands that flat behind are going to be other middle pairs that are likely to check behind the flop or AX hands that are easy to get away from when an A hits the flop (you should cbet 100% of A-high flops though for those middle pairs that called pre).

If you 4b and get 5b jammed on, you can find a fold and rest easy with your decision. These opportunities to chip up are what float you along in cheap tournaments with fast level increases. Well worth the risk, IMO. Your range is still uncapped when you 4b so they should still respect your range.

I agree but given the description of the small stack there is a lot of strength behind, it's a great spot for the remaining two to slow play here. Don't like the idea of sticking in a quarter of our stack and not realizing any equity.

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If either of the other stacks had a strong hand they would have 3b themselves. So I wouldn't be too worried about calling and having one of them 4b, or putting in a 5b after you 4b.

I like the idea of an iso 4b here. There's a good deal of dead money in the pot and I don't like the idea of calling more than 10% of your stack to set mine with 66. If you 4b you basically force the callers to fold everything but the tops of their ranges. You're never going to be very far ahead of the shorty's range with 66 but the goal in tourneys is to accumulate chips not bust players.

Maybe sb doesn't flat the top of his range bc of position post, but the hj call knowing bb is jamming very wide here is a great spot for him to slowplay with hands that can come back over the top.

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Sure that's possible but the more likely explanation is he wants to see a flop.

I can see HJ calling with AA/KK here if they have the same read that you do. If you are HJ and are positive that the BB will shove then this you can let that pot build and then iso 4 or 5 bet depending on the action. SB probably folds unless MP and HJ both call. MP should probably call here but don't be surprised if HJ decides to squeeze here with a big hand that was slow played. I might be giving too much credit to the HJ but it is a line that can be taken here.

If we're afraid of HJ making a move here and possibly having a huge hand, why didn't we just open-limp if we're so sure BB is shoving here? That way we can re-raise isolate BB with a very strong looking limp/raise of our own, putting the screws to HJ and SB to fold all but the very top of their range.

I never said I was afraid of HJ, just throwing out a possible line that they could take.

I think it's key to mention here that the fact the big blind was obvious to move all in was obvious to the whole table and not a specific read I had

Shove, low chance trap by AA
80% u heads up with short stack
20% u trapped by AA
I feel