I’m sure on what I’ve laid down. But I have some doubts. At some point I thought whenever someone who’s extremely short stacked moves all in, and you hold a low pair, I’d say call. But how about whenever the short stacked gets called before me? Well, maybe the odds will increase. But I’m not sure.

Similarly, say you will have two people with two over cards against you, which would imply 4×6=24 outs preflop. For an instance the caller was also short stacked, what do you think they will be looking for?

How about sharing of an ace by all in player and the caller, what’s your say about this? And if in case this happens, will the odds be much better compared to the potential winning?

By the way, I’m curious if how you’ll gonna play low pair against two short stacked all ins. Can you give me an idea? And what do you think, are the pot odds better than against just one, or was it a no-brainer lay down?

Just an information, these stuff were in a ring game. Do you think things have been different if they were in a cash game?

Thank you.

Mark

Mark,

I’m assuming that you are telling me that this was a tournament as opposed to a cash game. A ring game is typically another term for a cash game. In your scenario, your opponent went all-in and was called before you even acted. This is a no-brainer fold in my opinion too. If he was short stacked, and the call would not have been for much, you may want to take a card off and see if you hit your set. However, if you don’t hit your set then you are likely behind to the other player.

If you were the only person to act and they were short stacked, then you could call unless you were running low yourself.

Cash games don’t really make much difference with this scenario. He was all-in and called. You can’t believe sixes are good in any case.

While a six did hit the flop, when you play a pocket pair, you only flop a set 11% of the time. Do you really want to put a big portion of your stack up for 11%?