Scenario
Food for thought:
You are in the final 6 players of an online MTT with a very top-heavy payout. Let's say you're sitting with 100,000t on BB and the villain also has 100,000t UTG. The other players all have relatively insignificant stacks of around 40,000t. Blinds are a fairly significant 4000/8000 and all the small stacks are playing pretty tight. Villain has been playing a loose bigstack game, often raising out the smaller stacks, knowing they'll fold, especially preflop.
You look at JJ. The villain goes allin and the smallies fold around to you. Do you call?
points/thoughts/ideas/focuses
-villain has been aggro, but hasn't done this before
-if you win, you're almost a shoe-in to place first and definitely second
-so given a range of villain hands (AK AQ AA KK QQ TT maybe? i don't know) is it worth your chances of winning compared to the highly elevated prize money you're basically guaranteed if you do?
-with what holding of your own (TT? QQ? AK?) would you call this if not with JJ? What payout structure is required of each, (putting villain on maybe a specific hand for ease)?
-what about altering your or villains or smallie stack sizes? what if there was another player with 100,000t?
-what if there were 5 players? 8 (additions smallstacked)?
-other...
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