[Shillx]

The 1st hand is a standard push. Playing perfectly in the SB against the BB is such an easy thing to do since pushing/folding is only dictated by the size of your stack and your hand. With Q6s in this spot...you have to make money, no matter what his calling strategy is. Folding here (just because you ran into KK) is really bad since it is at least a +.5% $EV push. Even if he decides to just call with pair/Ax/Kx/Q7+ you are still correct to push.


The 2nd push is much worse IMO. It would be fine to push a big stack against some shorter stacks in this spot, but not here. It is like 0 EV to push even if you will only get called by A9+ and 66+. Against a large range (that includes KQo) you need to pick a better spot and fold here. You aren't in desperation mode just yet with the SB having just a few hundred more and you having like 9BB.

Brad