One Response to “Ben Reason Premiere Series – Member HH Review (Part 4)”

  1. JD

    This hand starts at about 7:30. This one involve all villains. To recap 7 handed and an 8BB stack shoved, button and SB both call. Flop is Jd2c9c and goes check check, turn Jh goes SB bet 175K into 932K and call, river is 5c, pot is about 950K side pot 350K, SB has 1M and button has 1.8M behind. You said the the button should consider shoving with showdown value to get the SB to fold out his equity.

    I have about 3 questions/concerns with this play 1) For this play to be optimal you have to have a hand behind SB range but ahead of the shovers range. You were talking about this before it was revealed button had AK, but is the nut hand to do this with? It does seem to me that you need a very narrow range to do this with 2) Can you really expect a wide folding range from the SB? The preflop action indicates his range is pretty strong range, and if I was in his shoes I would have a hard time putting you on a hand. The only hand that makes sense is a flush, and even that might not shove. I’m sure if the pay jumps were tens of thousands of dollars you could see plenty of folds, but in the $20-ish touneys I typically play in I could see a random calling with A9. 3) If he shoves and gets called by better he becomes on of the shorter stacks, and if he checks he is still going to be one of the larger stacks. Am I wrong in thinking this is a high variance spot you would want to avoid with that chip stack (and soft-ish table)?

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