Thank U 4 Posting
I am watching this video one decision at a time from your perspective.
Seat 7 min raises off of a 7 BB stack this is not a standard North American player play. Why do it? Was the player from outside the U.S.?
What tendencies did the 3 players left to act have that would make 7 think they could steal with this sizing?
If not a steal what range would 7 not need to protect vs what could be a semi wide call by BB.
Were your villains flatting BB wider?
What were 7's tendencies?
AGG- Passive TAG LAG?
Was this outside of their normal play?
Is your player pool making this raise with nut type hands only, trying to get calls?
If that is 7's range nut hands easy fold for U.
If 7 will do this with all AX this would be a great time to use flopzilla and do the maths.
You may want to fold if the math is close if you are the table boss. If you are not you should shove.
Ok let's see what you did.
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Ok do not take that personally. It is meant to be entertaining.
I have only seen the call no flop. I know you fold by your post.
You call, there is 5 BB in pot 7 has 5 BB. If we bet 5BB -7 gets 2-1 on a call that means 7 should call with a wide range here.
If we check the flop 7 gets to bet everything and we have no idea if we are ahead or behind unless we smack the flop hard.
If 7 checks the flop and paint comes on the turn we again have no idea where we are in the hand. 7 could check hoping you catch up.
So when we are learning poker we want to simplify our decisions post flop. Calling here does not do that.
Also when we are playing in SNG's we want to keep our stack to use to leverage other stacks. We can ill afford to put 450 in a pot and then fold on the flop getting 2-1 ourselves.
That is why we range 7, then either shove or fold depending on that range. It simplifies our play.
The min raise is a data point. We compare that to 7's normal play. The player pools normal play and decide if it helps us to estimate the range correctly.
Flopzilla really helps here to get the proper math solution when we have a good estimate of 7's range.
Thanks again for sharing your hand. It takes real courage to put yourself out there.
Hope this helps