Call a shove with JJ?
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Call a shove with JJ?
Hi.
I usually play 6-max cash, but I got a ticket for this MTT for free, so I participated. I don't know much about MTTs, so this is a rather basic question.
The MTT is a 6-max, re-entry allowed (I don't plan to re-enter). I have about 60BB. Overall, my stack is somewhere in middle of the field (about 70 people remain, 10 or so get paid), and we're nowhere near the money.
I open from UTG, 2.25x with JJ. It folds around to SB, who is rather tight and straightforward. He has about 110BB and is the biggest stack at the table. He shoves and BB folds. I had seen SB make this kind of play before a few times, and every time he had AK. So I call. He did show AK this time as well.
My question is: do I call here? If this was a cash game, I would call here every time, given that I had a very strong read on villain. But I don't know if things are different in MTTs. If I win the flip, I would be somewhere in the top 10 or top 5 stacks. If I lose, I'd bust, obviously.
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Hi belrio42,
I have a general approach to these spots where players rip in a ridiculous amount of chips - which is that I'm calling with 1010+ AK - mainly because I view my opponent's range to look something like 88-QQ, AQo, AQs which we're doing well against (obv some can be wider but this is my go-to readless assumption from experience and reasoning).
My other thoughts when approaching these spots are whether we have any reads like the one you do here - Imo, these reads are very reliable and players will often be consistent with the hands they choose to do this with. For example - if we call and see AA here, this is super noteworthy and we can change our approach accordingly.
Checkers123
In the best case scenario, he has AK, QQ, JJ and TT, against which JJ has 53.4% equity, which is not great, but with the dead money and being very far from the money we can take this spot. If for some reason he is also doing in with KK or even AA sometimes, or TT is not in there, the equity goes down a lot and even if we are still winning slightly there is no need to take a marginal spot vs such horrible opponents.
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