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How Short Stacked Should You Be to Shove Near The End of the Reentry Period
I’ve always wondered about this. How short stacked should one be to shove as the end of the reentry period nears? I’ve been running my home game on Pokerstars Home Games since COVID 19 put a temporary end to live play. The game starts at 7pm CST and the starting stack is 10k. We use the same blind structure as the Recpoker Nightly Series but I allow unlimited reentries through the first hour. At 7:50pm the blinds were at 100/200/35. So, 10 minutes left until the reentry period expires. A big stack raised to 500 and the BB (with 6800 chips) was the only caller. Post flop the BB donk shoved his remaining stack and was snapped off the big stack. BB paired his ace but the big stack flopped a set and knocked out the BB who immediately reentered. He now had a 10k stack and 50BBs as opposed to 34 BBs he had prior to busting. A few hands later another player with 7400 chips shoved over a pre flop raise to 400 only to run his A10 off into pocket aces. That player immediately reentered. So, is reentering with and having 50BBs worth it? The two players above had stacks of 34 and 37 BBs respectively. Is spending another buy in worth the extra 13–16 big blinds. Personally I wouldn’t do it in my home game because I still feel that even with a mid 30s BB stack I still have an edge over my players. Regardless, what do you people think is a short enough stack to jam with the intention of reentering this late in the reentry period?
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You should view each entry into a tournament as its own thing. So view it as, is it enough to shove 34 BBs here with a marginal hand and risk busting? And then another question, is it worth re-entering with X BBs at this blind level. Viewing it the other way is just a gambling mentality, IMO.
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