Down to heads-up with pocket 8's and 16 BB's (1 Viewer)

[Ronoh]

Care to explain this? I don't understand why you are unwilling to risk it all vs. a random hand, but are happy to get it in vs. a strong one.

Has nothing to do with me being unwilling to risk it all vs a random hand.

1: 88 is a big hand preflop HU

2: I would guesstimate 88 would be roughly 55-58% against hands that are willing to call your shove

3: When your opponent folds (most of the time) you gain an insignificant amount of chips. 2/3rds of one BB.

If #1 is true, that 88 is a big HU hand, do you really want to be playing one of your big hands in a way that gains you nearly nothing most of the time and has you as a small favorite over his calling range the rest of the time? I don't.

When you factor in #4: my opinion that his range of shoving over your standard raise is bigger than his range of calling your open shove it's an easy call in my book.

 

[jermfrog81]

with that stack I'm opens shoving 22+, A2+, K2+, Q4+, J7+ and like 108+...I shove every hand I play with less than 15BB... as the OP player I'm still calling it off with eights. Even if we think we are a better player the blinds are just to big for skill to have time to win out. We have to take a stand here