$11: Call this early position push

[rvg72]

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This was a hand a saw while railtarding a friend. He pushed UTG+1 with A7 and I told his opponent after he called that it was a poor call but the whole table said that they call in that spot.

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They either aren't very good or are trying to encourage the big stack to call so that 1) they get closer to the money and 2) make him feel like he isn't an idiot since they intend on taking his chips.

If he was the BB, the short stacked pusher was SB and the blinds were doubled then it's probably a call... This call was terrible.

rvg