[elvida]

Rough. It was almost like the poker gods were toying with you on that one *shakes fist at poker gods*

[taylormaas]

I would have just folded preflop.

[fivebyfive]

Unless cashing is immensely important to you and we just want to try to blind down to nothing in order to min cash, there’s really nothing you can do here. And with this short of a stack, I’m not even sure we could blind down to a cash.

You don’t love the limp from the short stack in front of you, but there are too many players who make these kinds of limping mistakes with hands you are flipping with or even dominating. I’m just getting it in and hoping for the best.

[7high11]

As I think you’ve now seen from the book study, it seems that having an Ace (which gives you a blocker and A high showdown value) or having suited cards is more important that having Broadways. I MIGHT have found a fold here, but to Chris’ point I may have well blinded out 10 from the money.

[emzadii]

icm-wise, i really think this is a fold. KQo doesn’t fare well against the range of another short stack limping in. yes, hero is severely short-stacked, but this is not a suitable spot. the move is either shove (and hope the UTG open-limps weak) or fold. hero limping is -EV.

If the stacks at the bubble are very severely short, i.e., 1 bb, the +EV move is to keep stalling and folding. if hero’s stack size is around those of bubble stacks, then hero needs to find the spot to gamble. But not this one (limping MP is bad, players behind could raise, no fold equity because big blind has a big stack, no Ace blocker, etc).

as played, when the flop came, the hands played themselves. nothing hero could do.