$3.30 NLHE MTT: $3.30 NLHE MTT: Villian equity after I (short-stacked) raise pre then shove on flop?

$3.30 NLHE MTT: $3.30 NLHE MTT: Villian equity after I (short-stacked) raise pre then shove on flop?

NLHE Turbo rebuy, avg stack ~10k; my image up till now has been aggressive. Blinds are 400/800 with 80 ante.

Im in the SB with :Ac4: :Kd4: and it is folded to me. I raise to 2000, and have 2960 chips behind me.

In this scenerio (correct me if I'm wrong), if he just flats me pre I am shoving no matter what comes on the flop (is this the correct move?)

After Villian (~16500 chips deep) thinks for awhile he calls, and the flop comes :Qh4: (pot: 4640)

I instantly shove my remaining 2960 and he calls, showing

The turn and river are blanks, and Villian picks up the pot.




My 2 questions are 1.) am I making a +EV move by always shoving on a flop if he just flats me? or maybe I should raise differently (i committed myself with AK off on purpose)

and 2.) lets assume Villian has noticed my recent aggression, and is under the assumption that even though I could be stealing he probably has the worst hand pre-flop, but if he calls and hits any pair or flush draw, he is calling my shove on the flop (which he is confident I will do regardless). So, is he making the correct move by calling my raise here?



side note: why aren't some of my cards I am typing in showing the graphic?

With 6 big blinds it is easy shove pre flop. You are short staked and has been seen as aggresive player therefore BB will often call you with weaker hands , including most aces weaker than your AKo. You would prefer call but you are also happy with his fold.

on, the other hand ,If he decideds to call he is pot commited and he cannot fold to a less than 1/2 pot shove no matter what.
Against thinking opponents this play his risky because they know , they are playing for your whole stack. And I assume BB just called preflop to see if they catch anything, because they knew, you would shove flop anyway.

Only shove preflop will be right move.

You have to shove this preflop. The fact that you have been aggressive makes this an even better shove because you will get called light by hands you dominate.

You mentioned you raised enough preflop to pot commit yourself on purpose....what is the advantage to this, I wonder? If you are pot committed; then I would think it is best to achieve your maximum fold equity by raising your whole stack....yes AK is the type of hand that doesn't mind a call...but it's also a vulnerable hand that has to hit. Your line would be better with KK,AA. but with AK and 6bb...just keep it simple and jam.

In answering your first question....yes, if you choose the sub-optimal preflop line of raising half your stack with Ace high; then yes you should go ahead and get it in on any flop...but that is simply a course correction after a preflop error.

to answer your 2nd question, if villain is confident you will shove any flop then his play is logical because he only has to call your shove when he hits the board and then fade 6 outs twice. so he is calling a raise with a perceived 40% equity but will later have the option to get an even bigger bet when he has 75% equity; or pass when he misses. Provided that he is a thinking player and knows what you are up to, it is not a bad line from him. Especially if he is the big blind, then he only has to call 1,200 and there is 3,920 in the pot so he is getting3.2:1 pot odds so he only needs about 23% hand equity to call. almost any hand has that and so he is getting direct pot odds to call your bet; he doesn't need implied odds. If he correctly expects you to shove 100% of flops then that only sweetens the odds from his perspective.

to answer your third question, you cannot capitalize the letters, only lower case letters work. for instance Kd4 vs kd4 shows up like this: :Kd4: