Re: 55 in BB against small stack all in and a limp reraise
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I am not saying I would raise to 400 everytime, but getting headsup with a desperate stack is very attractive even with 55.
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I'm not sure why this is true. The shortstack is obviously going to go in on a wide range of hands, but with 55 you are slightly better than a coinflip at best. Why risk 400 for a chance at a coinflip? If you had something like 88 or AJ (hands that would have a decent chance to be way ahead of the all-in raiser), this would make more sense to me.
Even if you could somehow *know* that every other player would fold, I can't imagine the +EV is very large here. Most of the hands will be coin flips (albeit with you as a slight favorite), you will occasionally be way ahead (to 22-44) and more often be way behind (to 66 and up). Once you factor in that you might get called in other places or (worse) raised, I think limping (or rather, calling the small all-in raise) makes more sense.
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