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Mr. shove. How do you play him?

Another hand. The situation is like this. I am clearly playing against a losing player. He shoved every hand, I lost one minraise, went back on limps and lost them to over shoves. It is pretty much clear that this guy is almost shoving everything. Anyway, I had no hands to go against it and folded everything untill I had only 340 chips left. I limped my K2os and he shoved for the ninth time in a row. Experience told me to patient when it comes down to this guys. Sometimes you win first hand and forget about it fast, but sometimes these games stick in your memory. I have lost many games because I was done with it and started to call with weak aces. I folded the hand but was not sure about it, where and when do you draw the line playing against these maniaks.

 

 

PokerStars Hand #108697432098: Tournament #834880194, $6.85+$0.15 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2013/12/17 20:25:31 ET

Table '834880194 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button

Seat 1: laurents20 (340 in chips)

Seat 2: Ads00829 (660 in chips)

laurents20: posts small blind 10

Ads00829: posts big blind 20

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to laurents20 [2d Kh]

laurents20: calls 10

Ads00829: raises 640 to 660 and is all-in

laurents20: folds

Uncalled bet (640) returned to Ads00829

Ads00829 collected 40 from pot

Ads00829: doesn't show hand

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 40 | Rake 0

Seat 1: laurents20 (button) (small blind) folded before Flop

Seat 2: Ads00829 (big blind) collected (40)

 

RyPac13's picture
You should estimate his

You should estimate his shoving range here and see if K2 makes sense to call. While you might assume he would consider not shoving all in with a very weak hand on his 9th hand, you can basically say the same of him doing it with AA/KK (if you've folded every hand so far he might be worried he won't get action). So it might be as simple as looking at K2 versus a range of 100%, or eliminating some of the few weakest and strongest hands (doing both, then seeing if you get the same answer).