Q7s from BB facing a SB shove — call or fold?
The answer
Call
make the call
The math: A 2bb jam into a 3bb pot gives you a huge price — Q7 suited is priced in, so call.
Why
When the shove is this small, the price does the work. The small blind is risking their last 2 big blinds, and you only have to add one more big blind to win the whole pot — so you only need to win about a quarter of the time to profit. Queen-seven suited clears that easily against someone jamming their last chips, which is a wide and desperate range. You're priced in. Call.
The spot
- Your seat
- BB
- Stakes and stacks
- 500 / 1,000 · 10bb
- Your hand
- Q♦ 7♦
- Board
- Preflop — no board yet
- Pot
- POT · 3,000
- Action on you
- SB jams 2bb
Every option
Foldkeep your stack
Why not: Q♦ 7♦ isn't a hand you'd get excited about, so folding feels safe. But the jam is only 2 big blinds — the price is so good that even a weak suited hand turns a profit here, and folding just hands over easy chips.
Callmake the callCorrect
The idea behind it
When an all-in is tiny next to the pot, your pot odds get enormous. You need only a small slice of equity to make calling profitable, so your calling range widens dramatically — sometimes toward any two cards. The smaller the jam, the wider you call.
Concept: Priced in
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