Personally taking down the shover stack increases your stack by 50% which is a good thing.  I could see playing this way with AA/KK..maybe. But not AK you have a drawing hand and the less people in the pot the better I would feel.  I would poker stove it and see what the equity differences are 2handed vs 3 handed.

JDOG1645 said:

Personally taking down the shover stack increases your stack by 50% which is a good thing.  I could see playing this way with AA/KK..maybe. But not AK you have a drawing hand and the less people in the pot the better I would feel.  I would poker stove it and see what the equity differences are 2handed vs 3 handed.

What I was thinking was that I had about 2x the short stacks shove and both blinds had me covered.  If one of them shoved I would;

1) Have a chance to win a monster pot to become chip leader

2) Just have to win a side pot with one of the bigger stacks to maintain my stack

Since I thought that my call looks pretty strong anyway I think maybe AQ AJ 1010 and 99 are the only hands that one of the blinds reshoves that would have folded if I just shipped it in.  I am 62 percent against that range for the side pot.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

 616,429,440  games     0.566 secs     1,089,097,950  games/sec

Board:
Dead:  

    equity     win     tie           pots won     pots tied    
Hand 0:     62.109%      60.63%     01.48%          373744596       9110946.00   { AKo }
Hand 1:     37.891%      36.41%     01.48%          224462952       9110946.00   { TT-99, AQo-AJo }

All of this said I still do not know which I like better and would def like to get some more opinions on this.

you flatting 50% of your stack here is essentially a shove.  You aren't inducing anything with your stack size.