JJ hand at 50/100 - $55s

[minwoo]

Blinds are 50/100. I have t1250, about 12x BB. There are still 7-8 players at the table so finishing in the money is not certain.

I get JJ in early position and raise to 300, a player from MP (no reads) pushes over the top for about 1000 and it comes back around to me. Fold or Call?

If folds this, I have about 9x BB left which equates to a good enough stack to utilize fold equity. If I call this and win, money is more certain for me. However, if I lose this I'll be crippled and pretty much game over.

What to do?

[tigerite]

Call easily. I'd seriously consider pushing preflop even with 12bb, as JJ is horrible to play OOP if called.

[bones]

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Blinds are 50/100. I have t1250, about 12x BB. There are still 7-8 players at the table so finishing in the money is not certain.

I get JJ in early position and raise to 300, a player from MP (no reads) pushes over the top for about 1000 and it comes back around to me. Fold or Call?

If folds this, I have about 9x BB left which equates to a good enough stack to utilize fold equity. If I call this and win, money is more certain for me. However, if I lose this I'll be crippled and pretty much game over.

What to do?

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Call. I don't hate a pre-flop push either.

[tigerite]

Oy, stop reading my reply first! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[BadMongo]

I'd say MP has a fairly wide range here, and you're only behind 3 of those hands. With the dead money in the pot, you have an easy call.

[johnnybeef]

Here is how you sort this type of problem out:

Step 1: Caluculate pot odds. bb+sb+your raise+his raise = pot....his raise-your raise = what you have to call. pot odds = pot - what you have to call. in this situation, you are getting 2:1

step 2: determine your equity when compared to his range.

even if it is as tight as this:

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

58,218,336 games 0.079 secs 736,940,962 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity (%) win (%) / tie (%)

Hand 1: 36.1901 % [ 00.36 00.00 ] { JsJh }
Hand 2: 63.8099 % [ 00.64 00.00 ] { AA-QQ, AKs, AKo }

you need to call.

edit: I'm running horribly and I am very grumpy. I really hate answering trivially easy questions like this.