$5.5 NLHE MTT Rebuy: How to play 88 with 23bb on BTN?

[Larmuar]

70/1200 left.
Simple question, simple answer?

The options I see:

1. direct Shove
2. Raise/call

U think of anything else? (Is there an argument for raise/fold, or is this in every situation just -ev?)

888 Poker - 2500/5000 Ante 625 NL - Holdem - 9 players

BB: 43.88 BB (VPIP: 17.56, PFR: 14.66, 3Bet Preflop: 9.77, hands: 354)
UTG: 12.24 BB (VPIP: 19.19, PFR: 14.43, 3Bet Preflop: 8.11, Hands: 99)
UTG+1: 33.03 BB (VPIP: 36.00, PFR: 4.26, 3Bet Preflop: 5.00, Hands: 50)
MP: 42.55 BB (VPIP: 16.90, PFR: 12.63, 3Bet Preflop: 5.63, Hands: 213)
MP+1: 28.38 BB (VPIP: 15.69, PFR: 11.00, 3Bet Preflop: 6.94, Hands: 204)
MP+2: 15.82 BB (VPIP: 39.39, PFR: 12.90, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 33)
CO: 12.49 BB (VPIP: 7.69, PFR: 8.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 13)
Hero (BTN): 23.06 BB
SB: 15.6 BB (VPIP: 4.55, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 22)

9 players post ante of 0.13 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.63 BB) Hero has 8:diamond: 8:club:

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.81 BB, fold, BB raises to 43.75 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 20.12 BB and is all-in

Flop: (47.49 BB, 2 players) T:diamond: 6:heart: Q:heart:

Turn: (47.49 BB, 2 players) Q:diamond:

River: (47.49 BB, 2 players) 8:heart:

BB shows T:club: T:spade: (Full House, Tens full of Queens)
(Pre 82%, Flop 97%, Turn 100%)
Hero shows 8:diamond: 8:club: (Full House, Eights full of Queens)
(Pre 18%, Flop 3%, Turn 0%)
BB wins 47.49 BB

 

[Aca0012]

In my opinion, you played well, but certainly you did not have luck on the flop. Raise with such cards is required from such a position. Even when our BB re-raise, then we sometimes think it wants to bluff and pick us up the chips, but call in this situation is ok, and there is no mistake! GG

 

[Larmuar]

Thank you! whats the lowest PP you would raise/call there? and do you just shove the lowest PP's like 22 etc.?

 

[Matt Vaughan]

Your follow up questions are probably even better questions than the initial hand question. I agree that pocket 8's are a mandatory raise call off here even with no info against villain (and I definitely prefer raise/calling it off to just jamming).

But with the smaller pairs I agree there is definitely a lot of merit in just jamming to elicit more folds. I have definitely segmented my range like this in the past and against weaker opponents. I think in tougher lineups we'd run into problems segmenting our range that way but in this buyin size I think it's going to be fine.

For me the line would probably be 55 or 66 where I just start open jamming instead of raise/calling it off.

Edit: And to be clear, I'd raise/call off 66+ and be open jamming 22-55. So there would be no pocket pairs in my range that I'm raise/folding.