Re: Difficult spot
In a similar situation in the future, you might consider pushing all-in pre-flop. My experience has been that with a big-stack playing, let's call it extravagantly, often the best approach is to let them know without doubt that you have a good hand are are willing to go all the way with it.
You would probably win only the blinds, but at this point that is a significant portion of your stack. As it is, you are now faced with a dificult decision, you may not have enough ammo left to get the big stack to fold, and you may no longer have the best hand. I would still probably push all-in here as well, but I wouldn't like it as much, and depending on the size of the shorter stacks, a check-fold strategy might, in any event, be the more prudent move.
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