Thank you for your thoughtful, yet belittling response. If you make all your decisions based on a silly preflop calculator, you will continue to be a mediocre poker player.
The "silly preflop calculator" is a piece of software, which tell you, what the optimal push-fold ranges are. It can also tell you, which adjustments you should make, if your opponents are not playing optimal. Its something, that most serious tournament player owns and have spend many hours working with, so they dont make big mistakes in this fairly simple part of the game. This is especially important, if you play a format like turbo SnGs, where push-fold spots are going to be very common.
Now I have checked your
sharkscope profile, and I owe you a small apology, because you are actually a winning player. This is most likely, because you play on
pokerstars Pensylvania in a pool, which consist of a lot of people with more money than skills. International sites are way tougher, because you have a bunch of semi-professional grinders from countries like Russia and
brasil all the way down to microstakes. People for whom even a 5$ hourly winrate is attractive compared to a normal job.
Now back to the hand surely we can make some adjustments, if we think, the opponent is not jamming as wide, as he is supposed to. I said that already in my original reply. But folding AKs would be a massive overadjustment based on information, which you almost certainly did not have.
You say, he had been "quiet and waiting patiently". Ok so maybe a bit on the tight side, but how many hands have you played with him, and are you using a HUD? If your read is only from this 6-handed SnG, you have probably only played something like 40 hands with him, and over such a small sample someone can easily be card dead. Moreover what do you assume, he does with hands like A9 or KQ, when it folds to him on the button, and he is the short stack with 14 blinds? Does he limp or min-raise, and have you seen him do that with this stack size?
My point is, we need an extremely solid reason to assume, he can only have a pair or AJ-AK. If he constuct his range in a linear way, that would be something like 88+ and AJ+, which mean, he is then folding or limping 77 and AT but jamming AA and KK with the risk of not getting action. That seams rather weird, but we can go with it anyway as a worst case scenario and see, what ICMizer has to say. If I lock up his range as 88+ and AJ+, you make money by calling with JJ+ and AK. AKs is still a very solid call, but AQ would now be a fold. But again you need a really strong reason to assume, someone is jamming with less than half of the optimal range.
It sounds like, you are reading a lot into the fact, he made the "non all-in all-in" rather than an actual all-in. I dont agree with that. I think, there can be multible reasons for this, including a simple misclick. Or maybe his thinking was, that if both opponents got it in, he could fold and hope for you to bust. Not a good strategy, but its also not a good strategy to do this only with very strong hands. In fact if he had a premium hand like JJ+, AK he should at least consider min-raising to induce a light rejam from either opponent. So I will almost go as far as saying, that those hands are a bit reduced in his range with this particular stack size of 14BB. And as someone else said already, you obviously block AA and KK.
