they are, but the manner in which you present them is probably a disuader to some.
That is just my personality, I'm young and immature, but it's just the way I am.
I don't think I offend anyone, I don't try to anyway....
taking a -EV spot to engineer a situation that he can turn into a huge +EV situation.
I repect what you're saying here.
In this particular hand the call is SO -ev that he's not even going to regain that lost value the times that he takes the chiplead because the 2 short stacks are next for the blinds in the next 2 hands, they have +/- 2BBs each.
The bubble will be bursting soon anyway so he wont have enough opportunities to make his chiplead work for him by say stealing my BB. Infact by the time it's my BB he'll probably not want to push me out of the pot as there will likely be a shortie all in and it's much better for him to call and check it down.
On this particular table I think I had a tight image aswell (but he might have played with me before, who knows) so I think he has to give me respect for some sort of range better than any 2, which makes it even more of -ev call.
AKo vs random cards has 65% equity.
He really needs over 75% against my range to make this call. If he correctly puts me on any 2 cards he can go ahead and call with a big pair but if he puts me on any sort of reasonable range at all then even KK is fairly marginal.
This particular situation was ideal for me to push any 2 given how the <2BB stack was getting the blind next hand.
ICM math is 90% of what you need to know about the bubble. The rest is common sense, obviously ICM doesn't factor in things like who's taking the big blind next hand and what effect the new situation will have as a result of calling the original hand etc (nor does it including any weighting for skill advantage, but with blind/stack rations this big the only skill is knowing when to push and when to fold).
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