ITH Poker Forum

[VeraWW]

Being that the M is 8 I'm shoving- you can't call/fold. You could call/stop and go. But I like shoving- The opp is mid position with just over a min raise so he could have a sm. mid pair or lower broadways than you have- of course he could have AA KK QQ or AK AQ but you are short and have to get chips. When in the orange M zone you have to take risk so shove them chips.

[Martio8]

Disagree on the definitely push or fold camp. Fold is out of the question getting 4 to 1 with AJ.
I'd say it's push or call territory and 20BB is the perfect stack size to smooth call and checkraise allin if you hit the flop.

EV Folding
=20 *100% = 20.0

EV Calling
=18.8*72% + (18.8+6+4)*28% = 21.6+ *

*You'd be surprised how often 99 or AK C-bets and feels committed to calling on a J 6 3 flop.

[mrmudgey]

I lean toward folding this hand in this situation. You have a nice stack to resteal, and I wouldn't want to be calling off chips and jeopardizing that situation with a hand that you will only be really comfortable putting more chips in with a small % of flops (J high, JJx, AJx). Save the chips for a better situation.