We’re just going to use this for the time being and that’s 28% equity, perfect. Okay maybe you agree with that, maybe disagree with that. Let’s think about the kinds of hands our opponent would open raise from there and then call our shove with. The last thing we need is our equity when called and let’s plug that into equilab. Equity when called, we’ll have to figure that one out. How much are with shoving for? $7508 because our opponent covers us. How much do we have to call? At this point that’s another $450, perfect.

Pot size before we shove, what was that? That was $1560. But that being said I still want to show you how to proof this hand mathematically and that’s what we’re going to talk about in this video/guide: I don’t know any of that kind of important MTT information – which makes this very very difficult to analyze and give correct tournament analysis from it. I don’t know where we are in terms of payouts. Unfortunately, I wasn’t given any other information. Tim says the villain had just joined the table and he had no HUD stats whatsoever. So what is the EV of 3-bet shoving here? What even goes into calculating the EV in a poker hand? In this hand we have J9s, there’s a $40 ante, the blinds are $150/$300, and in this exact situation there’s a raise from DIOGEN, it folds around and Tim decides to rip it. This hand comes from Tim who wants to review this hand played in a tournament. So let’s go through a few examples together and see when getting it all-in preflop is profitable! 3-BET SHOVING WITH J9 This is an effect of not understanding the EV of shoving preflop, especially since the EV (expected value) of going all-in can be a bit counterintuitive. But still, most players aren’t super comfortable going all-in preflop with less-than-premium hands.

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