You are sat on the BB with 12BB facing a 3BB raise from late position. The raiser is a LAG and you wish to either re-shove or call and shove on any flop.
What factors would you take into account when deciding which to do?
Would different stack sizes change your decision?
Do different hand ranges affect your decision?
Any help appreciated.
Just played a hand where onedognight is in pretty much exactly situation you describe.
He has 12BB and is facing a 3BB raise from me on the button. (I'm pretty LAG)
His hand is
, and he chooses the stop n go.
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 2: D J Grizzly1 ( $8080.00 USD )
Seat 4: onedognight ( $2360.00 USD )
Seat 7: HERO ( $3060.00 USD )
D J Grizzly1 posts small blind [$100.00 USD].
onedognight posts big blind [$200.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ ]
HERO raises [$600.00 USD]
D J Grizzly1 folds
onedognight calls [$400.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ , , ]
onedognight bets [$1760.00 USD] (all-in)I don't do a lot of stop and gos myself.
As Longy says, one type of player will usually spot them and call you with ace-high. The other type of player may not spot them, but will call you with ace-high anyway.
I need to be very confident that a shove has no fold equity to make the stop n go look appealing to me.
I call, (if only to make a reply on this thread)
HERO calls [$1760.00 USD]
onedognight shows [, ]
I think he chose an excellent spot for the stop n go here.
I can say with absolute certainty that there are no hands I will raise 3BB there and fold to 9 more. So he has
no pre-flop fold equity with a push.HERO shows [, ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ ]
** Dealing River ** [ ]
HERO wins $4820.00 USD from main potBit unlucky of him there, not to say he played it wrong though.
I probably would have folded if his flop bet was 1/2 to 3/4 pot. It would have looked a lot stronger instead of screaming stop n go.
Maybe he does better long run with the call from overcards though?
Footnote: If I were in onedognight's spot against a random opponent. I would have just pushed pre-flop.
The reason is
you will have pre-flop fold equity here against most opponents. (just not against me.)
Even winning players will pass a lot, ignoring the pot odds and the subtelties of metagame, they just don't want to call a lot of chips off with a hand like JTo because they think it's a bad play.
(I guess we could use your M:TG now and say that now compared to two years ago, the meta has shifted so that in the majority of situations, moving over the top is now a better option than the stop and go.)