It depends on your playstyle, your table image and how tight/loose your opponents are. Generally speaking, shoving 44 with 25 bbs seems like a huge risk though. Depending on the table and game structure, 10 bbs probably, 15 bbs perhaps, 20 bbs doubtful, yet 25 bbs hardly ever correct.
Even disregarding the earlier position, know that even 2 random overcards to 44 (and that is a ton of combinations including
hands like QJo or 76s) are probably in a coin flip situation and an overpair would be devastating with about only 20%
equity (exact based on which overpair of course). There might even be multiple players continuing if you are in this early position! These scenarios (
free poker calculator equilab) are just Heads-up examples:
UTG+1: 4c 4s 51.47% equity
BTN: Qh Jd 48.53% equity
UTG+1: 4c 4s 49.35% equity
BTN: 7h 6h 50.65% equity
UTG+1: 4c 4s 19.36% equity
BTN: 9h 9d 80.64% equity
These are just some possible matchups, but this doesn't even account for premium hands like AA or AKo; not to mention how these are just a few specific holdings are example rather than constructed ranges. Here is one example range just to show the point. Let us say:
UTG+1 is up against one caller (BTN or whatever position) whose range contains about 20% of hands (you can adjust the ranges you want for mathematical reasons or based on position, but 20% seems like a round number just to illustrate a point). 20% range would look something like this:
22+,A2s+,K2s+,A6o+ and with this range against exactly 4c 4s we have:
UTG+1: 4c4s 47.22% equity
BTN: 52.78% equity
In short, it is unlikely that players are going to be loose enough calling down 44 25bbs All-In shoves to make this profitable for this situation.
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