KTo from SB with 10bb — push or fold?
The answer
Push
all-in
The math: 10bb · shove or fold. two broadway cards is a clear jam.
Why
At 10 big blinds you're too short to raise and then fold to a re-raise, so it's shove or muck, nothing in between. K♣ T♦ is two of the biggest cards in the deck, and that makes it an easy jam. Most of the time everyone folds and you scoop the blinds for free. When someone does call, you usually have two live overcards, or you flat-out beat a worse king or ten. Push.
The spot
- Your seat
- SB
- Stakes and stacks
- 500 / 1,000 · 10bb
- Your hand
- K♣ T♦
- Board
- Preflop — no board yet
- Pot
- POT · 1,500
- Action on you
- Folded to you
Every option
Foldgive it up
Why not: Folding two big cards here throws away easy money. King-ten looks plain, but at 10bb it's well ahead of a random calling hand, and shoving takes the blinds uncontested far more often than it gets called.
Pushall-inCorrect
The idea behind it
Under about 15 big blinds, poker becomes push-or-fold: you shove all-in or fold, because there's no stack left to play a real pot after the flop. Two broadway cards clear that bar easily — they win the blinds through fold equity and rarely play badly when called.
Concept: Push or fold
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