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Live $60 to $250 super sat, late play small stack

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Live $60 to $250 super sat, late play small stack

Hey guys ... played this $60 super sat yesterday and cashed to the $250, curious about your thoughts on late short stack shoving. I played my stack fairly standard i think, basically shoving any ace or paint combo if I was opening from the hijack or later, trying to get 3 sets of blinds every two rounds. Table was reacting fairly passively, I had 5 - 8 bbs which was enough to make any caller who lost reverse position with me. Stack average was about 8 -14 bbs.

One specific question I have is facing a 2x bb raise from utg with 5 or 6 bb left and looking at 77 in the sb, do you fold with 25 left, 20 to cash? I folded, first pair I saw forever, raiser showed aq. Should I take a flop and shove boards without A/paint or with a 7? We were 1.5k/3k/400 ante and I had 16k stack.

Eliminations were going fast (lost 5 to 30 right before 2nd break, 20 got paid), so I guess my question is, was I playing to loose by shoving, or too tight by folding?

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GameTheory 11 years, 11 months ago
The 77 vs AQ hand is a clear fold, don't flat. You should not try to take marginal spots to gain a few chips in EV. With 77 you're gonna face almost always overcards and higher pairs are still in his range.

Remember that if that was a normal tournament good players would always shove the 77 for higher chip EV, so flatting has lower chip EV and shoving 77 vs UTG is already marginal.

If the players are too tight you should raise/shove their blinds wider, use hands like Axs, K8s, 33 etc. Blockers are more important than raw equity if you only called called by tight ranges.

And if they are too loose you should just try to get ITM by mostly blinding down and waiting for premiums.

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