2 coinflip hands. 180 person SNG

[dozer]

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1) Call i think here's my restealing range
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2,558,182,176 games 4.577 secs 558,921,165 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity (%) win (%) tie (%)
Hand 1: 49.6916 % 49.20% 00.50% { 66 }
Hand 2: 50.3084 % 49.81% 00.50% { 22+, A7s+, KTs+, QJs, A7o+, KTo+, QJo }


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Looks like a call

2)hmmm..fold, but i'd call with TT here.

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I felt the second hand was marginal also. But I still called. Why call with TT and fold 99? Is the decision really that close?

[Firefly]

That push by MP1 screams DONT WANT TO PLAY A FLOP. Unless you have some other read. Most of the time this is a pair like 88-JJ,or AK,AQ and most people tend to just standard raise AA-QQ. With Tens i feel just *that* much more ahead of his range to commit basically all my chips.

[tshak]

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I felt the second hand was marginal also. But I still called. Why call with TT and fold 99? Is the decision really that close?

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It depends on the range you put your opponent on. For example, if we're pretty confident that Villians range is "JJ-88,AQs+,AQo+", 99 is about 49.2%. Definitely a close decision given the money already in the pot, but risky if our range is too loose. Compare this with TT at 57.6%. 99 is almost break even here, whereas TT has a ~15% edge. With TT there's a lot more room for error in our range and it has significantly more equity than 99.