I have no comment on the free roll aspect of things because I'm not sure what you're referring too but there is a hell of a lot of variance in poker and shit like this happens to everyone. I also don't thing he expects u to turn up with just aces kings or queens here very often so it's not the worst call in the world (I assume u want it to look like a squeeze which is why u jam)
Freeroll aspect means if he had to raid his piggy bank for the monkey to play and/or win via a sat through his own cash and efforts he is never calling in this spot in a million years given the icm situation and the fact it's clearly a huge amount of money to him.
This is where levels on levels and all this poker speak gets a bit carried away and people forget it's a pretty simple gambling game with two cards. He is a 45% dog to every hand i shove in that spot at absolute best. No one in their right mind in a £500 donkfest that soft with above average chips is ever going to shove into 3 people (including utg raiser) with worse than aq in that spot. he is a 10% dog against AA, 28% dog v kk/qq or ak and a 42.5% dog v 1010 or jj and a 45% dog against any other pair which is shoving below 1010. He chops if i have AQ. I keep things really simple and see them from a betting/odds point of view. He chooses to get his money in last in this spot (obviously only one way to win when he had every chance to show aggression himself and take down the pot with no showdown in position) and is a dog to every possible hand he is likely to see. This is before the fact he has comfortably above average in chips and can find a much better use for his stack icm wise.
When you say it's not the worse call in the world i am starting to wonder if i am going mad!
What person playing for easily the biggest cash of their life would choose to play AQ in this manner seriously?
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