$5 NLHE 6-max: Calling off a 4bet shove with QQ Rush Poker

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I am posting this video to get your opinions on this. Here's some context to the hand itself. It's Rush poker (as you saw) and I don't have any prior history with this particular player.

I 3-bet on the button with Queens and the big blind 4 bet shoves 110 bb's effective.

With no reads on this player, do you play it conservatively and think (s)he can only have Aces or Kings here? Or do you go with it, like I did because in playing Rush (or Zoom) you see some strange plays out of the blinds enough of the time that it's a +ev play to call off.

I think I levelled myself into a call here, thinking I am ahead enough of the time that it would be a -ev play to fold.

Thoughts???
 

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Without watching video, id say its a call. Shoves like this is going to be hands like AK and JJ often enough to show profit here.
 
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Without watching video, id say its a call. Shoves like this is going to be hands like AK and JJ often enough to show profit here.

I disagree with this. From my experience playing over 50k hands at 2NL zoom, players stack off really tightly at this format. A 4bet usually means KK+ and sometimes AK. Most micro stakes zoom players will flat-call a 3bet with hands like 99-QQ, AQ and sometimes AK, so you're rarely ahead when you call a 4bet shove with QQ.

In fact, players are so tight at this format that you should actually be considering a fold with KK preflop against a 4bet when you're 150bb deep, as crazy as that sounds. You will be up against AA more often than AK and you'll rarely be up against anything worse than KK or AK in this spot.
 
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