Feeling Awkward, KT with 20bb 3 handed
Join Date: Aug 2020
Posts: 1
$30 5-man Poker app homegame sng. 5k starting stacks, winner take all. Blinds up every 8 minutes.
3 handed. Blinds 100-200.
Hero (3k) on button with KTo. SB has 11.1k, BB 10.5k. Hero shoves.
Both SB and BB will call 2-3x raises and exert pressure postflop with a fairly wide range. Both solid, competent types with fair reading ability.
What do I do with these better than average type holdings with around 20bb on button? Seems too tight to throw them away, but playing flops and turns seems bad-- I wont be able to fold most top and probably middle pairs with bluffs.
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 11,479
I just ran a few sims with Holdem Resources Calculator.
If you just play push/fold, then KTo is marginally a shove, with an expected win on average of 0.09 bb.
If, however, you open for a min-raise to 2 bb, then KTo is a slam-dunk open, winning 0.34 bb. You'll be opening with a fairly wide range on the button, about 56%.
I also ran a sim giving the choice between min-opening and shoving; it turned out that BTN had a 0% shoving range, so we can ignore these results.
Bottom line: Don't shove here with anything; open for the minimum with your entire playing range, and take it from there.
Join Date: Sep 2020
Posts: 225
KTo easy shove, if the winner take all. I think they will call very different than "the optimal" Especially the SB (overshove)....
Blinds 100-200, Hero 3k, it is not 20bb...Am I wrong? 20bb will be too much imo. 2x with 20bb...
