Yesterday at Foxwoods, situation as follows:
- $120 buy-in 10k event, 131 runners with 14 paid
- 38 players remaining, blinds 1,000-2,000 ante 200
- Moved to new table for an orbit, player to my direct right moved two hands prior, no idea on his game
I was sitting on 22,000 chips and in the big blind. Action was folded around to the small blind (the new player), and he opened for 6,000. I checked out what he had behind and it was roughly 27,000. Earlier in the orbit, I decided I was going to reshove any CO/button/SB raise against medium stacks with any two cards and followed through with my plan (not that it matters, but I had Q9). He ended up stacking off with KQos.
Was this a bad idea against a new player with no information on his playing style, calling ranges, etc? Is this an ideal hand to be shoving (+ev, good flop value, etc)?
I'd have folded. Good to have a plan but when an unknown puts 5k in taking the pot to im guessing 9600 your 4k taking it to 13600 then calling the rest of the 18k allin, so calling 18k for 31600 which cripples him. More likely if he had crap he would have just shoved or min raised. Imo he played it like a rookie, by basicly saying I have a hand that I should raise with. If you wanted to continue with idea of shoving I would have changed the thinking to do I have the best chance of my cards being live if I get called? which imo is going to happen most of the time at those stakes, at that level in the tourney, given both your stacks. Therefore I'm folding hands Q9 K8 A6 and would push back with low end being connectors (9 and under) even if they are single or double gappers, any pair, or A10+.
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