Out in 6th – I minr w 88, donk chipleader fr bb calls, flop 254r – everything is fine right? He x/calls my 1/2 pot cbet. Turn 6. Usually I wont bet over pot but I know this guy could be doing this w overs or any pair he may have hit and I dont wanta give him a shot to hit it – still thought I had a bit of FE – he ch's, I get it in – he has A3!

I started the hand with 19 bbs – there could be a case for open shoving, but I min'd fully expecting him to flat fr the bb w prob up to 60 or 70% of his range. I think most of the times, he flats and x/folds to my cbet or even peels flop and then folds to a turn bet. Pretty sure playing it like that vs a player like this is more profitable than open shoving in the long run. Not this time though, but no regrets.

Yeah T? I hear u. I'm pretty sure I would have shoved 77. But the 88 looked like such a value hand vs that guy in the bb, like I said, who I knew would flat with most of his range. I just looked at what 60% looks like – forget it – he would have flatted w even higher.

Come to think of it, as silly as it sounds, he may have called a shove w the A3o. I mean he r/c w Q8o for most of his stack. And if he called w the A3o and lost, it would have just been a slight dent to his stack.

I guess that's not important here.

Would u also shove 99 and TT?  JJ+ would be way too strong to open shove, right? What about AK, AQ? Is there an argument for opening vs this guy in the bb instead of shoving?

Thanks for your opinion.