This is my first time playing villain and its the 7th hand of the SnG. So far I minraised all my buttons and he always called me, but has not yet 3-Bet preflop.
Hero (SB): 21.5 BB
BB: 28.5 BB (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 40.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 6)
Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 6
A
Hero raises to 2 BB, BB raises to 28.5 BB and is all-in, Hero ???
At the time I ended up calling with the A6o, but I think this might be a significant mistake. It all comes down to the 3-bet shove range of villain. I think it could be something like A2-A8 and TT-22. Against this range A6o has roughly 44% equity which makes the EV of a call ~19 BB which is slightly worse than the EV of folding (19.5 BB). Now the problem is if villain shoves wider, especially if he shoves more Ax type hands. If he includes Ax hands up to AT the EV of the call is suddenly only 18 BB (1.5 BB worse than a fold). For the call to become plus EV he would have to include a significant portion of Kx, Qx, or bluffs in his 3-bet shove all-in range.
How would you have played the hand? Is this call as bad as I think it is?
Fold vs the population, gona be a -ev call in the long run. I would typically limp this hand preflop, doesn't really have good playability in a min raised pot.
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A8o is a fold in this spot too. A6o really not close at all, A9o is close.
Also yeah, limping intending to flat nai iso and fold vs shove is marginally better.
Thank you all for your pretty clear advice. Just starting out playing hyper HU seriously and trying to learn from you all :-)