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As it surned out the call was fine, but personally I hate calling off my stack with marginal hands because you're not exploiting any fold equity. I think you're better off folding here and open shoving an even worse hand so you have the chance of getting the blinds/antes. Having said that, with blinds where they are and your stack what it is, you clearly had to win a couple races to get into the thick of things and this one just didn't go your way.

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depending on the level, some people are surprisingly brutal at sngs. I usually play tight as hell til the blinds get to the point where the avg. stack is 20bb or less, but if i'm in this situation I always have sharkscope or OPR open, do a quick search of them and figure out roughly where they're at. If its a good player i'm saying they have cards and if it's a fish I call them. Don't assume youre getting squeezed that early because most good players wait to learn the tendencies

11 BBs is well above the expected value of AA so be happy with it. You can't always force an allin situation

obv fold there, the bubble is irrelevant. Raise preflop, that limp is garbage

Were the blinds lower I'd fold easily, but with them that high and him only having 2k total you might as well go, getting good odds plus if Snurby joins in he clearly doesn't have any of your outs taken so that'd just give you a better price. I think you should have led out with a smaller bet like 300-400 and get a cheap look at the turn rather than have to call a big bet like 1k and wind up having to go allin, the check may have been a mistake but you might as well chase after it now

I'd have to say lordxixor's got a point. Good on you for posting the hand and asking whether or not you did the right thing. Clearly it was (in good players' eyes) a glaringly obvious bas call, but 2 years ago I may have done the same thing. Just recognize you should very rarely be the guy calling bets, and if you are, never do it with these sketchy hands with such pad odds; eliminate leaks like this and you might see some success.

Uhh, what exactly are you expecting for advice, you used your read to make a tough call and gave yourself a big edge. UL

I'm not an expert on the math, I always just estimate it. I rarely get tangled in pots with suited connectors so I'm not 100% and I've got an exam tomorrow so I'm not gonna spend an hour finding out exactly how. But what I do know, is if you DO put him on an overpair like KK and you're calling him with a hand like 44, if he is a loose player you can assume as long as you flop that set you'll get all his chips, therefore even though you've only be getting like 1.5 to 1

The only reason for calling with that preflop is to hope to flop huge and get all the guy's chips, this is a pretty bad play to begin with but can be acceptable. However, he only had 1975 chips which gave you nowhere near the implied odds. On the flop you're obviously behind but what else did you expect to flop, if you're playing a J8 preflop you're definitely not folding top pair. Recognize that any raising hand has you squashed preflop, if you can't resist playing these hands