($55) Awkward spot with JJ preflop

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tigerite, I know people might call with 99-TT...my basic point is that I always like to determine whats the situation in a worst case scenario first..like if the ranges are all supertight...tighter than tehy usually would be. This is important for a few reasons:

1. It can prove to you that one play is wrong....for instance if pushing JJ is +EV even if all of our opponents play perfectly after we push, then obviously folding is incorrect.

2. It can help you understand how to play in higher limit games where some players are that tight or at least where it's more reasonable to assume so. I wouldn't consider the $215s to be like this, but with certain players making that raise it would be, and it could be closer to reality in a $400+ buyin on Party.


So first...lets make a relatively tight reasonable range for the first player, and then assume they play perfectly to our allin (although they fold all AQ hands because thats too absurd). Then we slowly make their range a bit wider after solving for the first case, until we get a good feel for whats really going on in such situations.