Pair with short stack shoving in front, NL MTT

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Game type: $150 Freezeout, PokerStars
Stage of tourney: ITM
Your image: n/a
Opponent’s image: Very solid regular
Your hand: 6♣6♦

The setup: You’re in the money of the nightly 150 on PokerStars. You’re short stacked, and are happy to see 66 until a player in front of you shoves his similarly short stack.

What’s your play?

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Groundhog day

Fold. Too many left to act. Prob flipping and if I call it may induce at least one more putting me up against way too many overcards. Kick the dog when a 6 hits.

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Morat

Fold. I’d rather open-shove something expecting to be a 40:60 dog if called, than call a shove expecting to be flipping most of the time.

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Anonymous

Call. If everyone folds, I am getting great odds on my money for what is likely a flip. Even if someone calls, my equity ain’t that bad.

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teddy

good quiz because this is a common situation. I go with my instinct here, and if ive labeled him a very solid regular, we are a coin flip much of the time and even behind more times than ahead Statistically you shouldnt call off your stack with sixes, but if you’re feelin lucky on a coin flip call and hold your breath.

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samo

I’d fold. The V is solid and shoving from UTG+1. Sure they are short (i.e. wider range), but even if Hero is ahead, there are too many players yet to act. Give the solid player a chance to bust and potentially move-up in the $.

The follow-up question is what hand would you call with? For me – 99+, AK.

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Cassie

A super solid reg won’t be shoving with air. He has a higher PP nearly all the time. Snapfold.

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Pirate21

Fold.
V usually has a PP here, most likely 22-QQ.
We are behind 60% of that range with only 2 outs and pricing in bigger stacks with overs behind.
If V had about half that stack, I might consider a re-shove but probably still folding.

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Sunshine

Voted fold. It’s not so much based on being behind as the fact that I’m calling off 19k to win ~42k. 42k still isn’t quite enough chips to give you a chance to tighten up and play for the final table, and if someone else calls, your chances suddenly look worse, not better.

I want to open-shove 6s, not call with them with five players still to act. You’re still sitting on ~6M, which means your ideal situation is to shove over a small raise, certainly not call an open-shove right in front of you.

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Spand42

Fold.

You still have 10BB in front of you. I generally much prefer to be the one who shoves, rather than someone who calls a shove, unless I have a monster .