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Originally Posted by 3ozBacardi
Let me see if I understand you. You see moronic all-in calls with nothing, no pair, no draw (in PLO no less) catch miracle runner runner everyday so it's perfectly normal to you and no cause for suspicion? It's just typical shortstacking light-a- match-to-it morons and miracles?
He "needs to call" but you don't?!
OK, let me say it again.
When I say he needs to call $152 to win $422 I am describing the odds IF he calls. He can win $422, and if he chooses to call that then he needs/will have to/must put in $152.
I'm not saying that he needs/ought to/must call. In fact did I not explicitly say that I thought this was a bad call ?
By playing shortstacked, OP engineers a situation where these kind of pot commitment scenarios will happen all the time.
I am looking at that hand in a vacuum, I have no idea whether there was any dynamic between OP and the villain. Against an unknown, which is how I looked at it, I would take OP's play as having his hand face up and him having 100% value hands in this spot. If there could be a percentage of air in OP's range there, then it becomes close.
But really my point is more about shortstacking. In 3bet pots you will see stacks get in on the flop a LOT due to pot commitment issues. This doesn't make the villain's call here any better, but OP will see a lot of situations where his opponent calls off his stack light because of stacksizes.