November 13, 2018
This is an interesting hand to me, and I’ve been trying to figure out what to do in these types of spots. It seems suicidal to jam, as the initial raiser will most often rejam, or call, getting 1.8/1.
For the sake of example, let’s just assume the mp raiser jams over your ship. Against a tightish range (18%), KTo has 38% eq. One way that I’ve tried to look at this spot, is that essentially (because the initial raiser most often jams over our ship, and the button caller most often folds) we are putting 12 bbs into a pot that will be 18.5 bbs total, giving ourselves a prospective 1.5/ 1, needing 40% to break even. Of course, we don’t have that. I suppose there is a little wiggle room, because once in a while our jam gets through. But it seems suboptimal, especially given the money bubble considerations.
The safe route seems to be just what you did: Call, getting 6.5/1, and closing the action. But with our short stack now consisting of 11 bbs, we find ourselves in no mans land. If we check to the original raiser, and he bets, and the button does not raise, I personally just feel obligated to get the rest of my chips in on this ten high board ( or a King high board, for that matter).
The other option after calling in the BB is to donk jam the flop. This prevents the original raiser from checking back, and getting a free card.
I really find myself trying to find a way to fold this hand preflop, which seems absurd given the pot odds we’re being given, and the fact that we’re closing the action. I just wonder if pot odds don’t take a back seat to stack size/ stack playability considerations, and in this case, money bubble considerations.
I, too, would be interested to hear other people’s opinions on how to play this hand.
I think you have either a jam or fold preflop. KTo doesn’t play well multiway. Jamming should give you some FE and if you are called, you could be live. I doubt the BTN has anything amazing since he would probably have 3bet and your stack is big enough that MP shouldnt be calling with his entire opening range. You said MP is tight, so you could just fold.
Either option is fine depending on how you perceive the other two players. I wouldn’t call though.
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