Daily Hand Quiz

You’re getting about 1.2-1 or so. What’s a solid opponent shoving 9BBs UTG? I think some players have actually started to tighten up their shoving ranges as players have started calling shoves wider, but 9BBs with the blinds approaching is still going to make a lot of cards seem appealing. How about 22+,A9s+,KJs+,ATo+,KJo+? That or a similar range you’re basically flipping with.

Should you take a flip? Probably not, as there’s still five people to act behind, resulting in a decent chance (say 20%) that someone wakes up with a calling hand. While you are short, you still have two hands before the blinds, and even after the blinds you have a stack that has some fold equity with most stacks on your left. If you were a little shorter or a little later, I think you call; as it is, I think you can pass.

What actually happened: You called and the rest of the table folded. Your opponent showed AJ and you won the race to double up plus a bit more.

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I’m in the money and I’m getting too short for my taste. I take the chance and call

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I’m think there are more A-Picture or similiar than pairs and ruling out the high pairs because he’s shoving. that still leaves a few pairs higher than my hand. So it’s 18-24 pairs and 48(/64) A-picture(/T) so in almost 75% of the cases Im ahead preflop and the 1.2:1 looks appealing. The chance of me being infront preflop again before the blinds hit me again are to low for me to fold here.

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I think I am slightly ahead of the raiser’s range, but call/fold depends on how loose or tight the rest of the table is playing. If tight I call, but if it is playing loose I would fold as I could get called by lots of hands given players stack sizes behind. The BB especially, could call with something like 10 J suited correctly couldn’t he?

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I voted fold for the reasons put forward by staff. I would call against raiser but the risk of someone else having me beat tips the balance toward folding. Id fold and look for a spot where i could be the first one in, id still have some fold equity.

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I voted call. I might fold 22-55 here. If we REAALLLLY wanted to move up 1 step in payout structure, maybe folding is the way to go.

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I voted fold. We are probably flipping against the openers range. Not bad, but too many players yest to act.

@Rowdy
Why would you call if players were tigth? If the table is full of tigth players, that means that you would get more chances of openshoving late and have better FE doing so. Less reason to take a flip.

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We were going to shove for sure before villain beat us in the pot. 77 is a great calling hand, but all those big stacks behind us…..

Ordinarily, I’d say this comes down to how comfortable you are the table (fold if you’re the best player, shove if you have dangerous opponents). However, your M is only 4, and 77 is a very good hand. I think in this case, I’m shoving and holding my breath that nobody else joins in. A win here still leaves you short, but gives you some breathing room. It sucks if you lose, but you’re just a few orbits from being blinded out anyway. Conservative play isn’t going to save you. Shove and pray this is a tango, not a line dance.

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i voted call, but couldve easily went with fold too. i think we need to chip up and start playing with a stack if were going to make it deep into the money. i think rowdy has a good point. depends on the action at the table. if youre likely to get called from one of the players behind, 77 doesnt look as good. if theres a lot of folding going on, i take the flip.

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Call if you want to win, fold if you need the cash. Good Players will lay down good hands once the all in has been called. Players behind would probably need JJ plus to call. I would call.

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I think the term M is being used too much here… I think this is really just a fold… a call in the blinds tho… very very marginal spot to call. Yes, with 9 bb you still have folding equity imo… i rather stick it in a spot… where most of the time im a 60-40 or 40-60.. ( on a blind steal)… its just the whole idea with tournament play… its hard to call off your chips.

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It really depends on the structure of the tournament. I see no value in getting into an at-best coin-flip unless all the money is stacked at the end. If it is, then you gotta go for it. If not, find a better spot, ESPECIALLY given the potential that you get another caller behind you.

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