Quote Originally Posted by Elbarad View Post
I think I would fold. Probably at best you're looking at two over cards, and with two smaller stacks than you who are going to face the blinds before you do you can hope to finish ahead of them.

If you are going to call or raise, I think you're best to go all in. I think if you just called, you'd be in a terrible pickle if you missed your set and he bet at you again.

FOR SURE we NEVER just 'call' here in hopes of hitting a set. Typically you'd want effective stacks to be a minimum of 15x the size of the bet for it to be a profitable call to set-mine.

Three choices here really.... fold (wait for better spot as you still have some fold equity), shove (this villain raises often in late levels while in Late Position on a stack & they raise a much wider range than they'll call the reraise allin with... 1pt. for the shove)... if we shove & they fold we're really adding to our stack here (another pt. for the shove).

Lastly, we could 'call' with intentions of shoving any & all flops ( use a "Stop N Go"). This increases our chances of winning the hand if villain were on say AK, or AQ, AJs and would be calling our re-raise allin, making it a race/coinflip. If we call & shove the flop they'll be hard pressed to call with just 2 overs, not getting even close to the odds they'd need to do so. Sometimes it can be tough to do this (ie. when we see a scarey looking flop) but keeping in mind that if we reraised allin preflop, we'd be getting it anyways so we just go ahead & get it allin.

Okay.... so what did I do. I opted to 'fold' (shamefully, lol). Afterward when I'd taken a bit of time to look over the hand, re-weighed my options I think it was probably a perfect spot for a shove (if we'd had fewer chips, then it'd been perfect for a 'stop n go') but instead I pulled a 'stop NO go', lol.