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K9 suited facing a 10bb shove — call or fold?

SB 200 / BB 400It folds to the Button, who shoves all-in for 4,000. The Small Blind folds. Action is on you in the Big Blind holding K♣ 9♣.

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The hand

Three-handed, 10bb stacks all around, no antes. The Button moves all-in for 10bb and the Small Blind folds. You are in the Big Blind with K♣ 9♣, your 1bb already posted. The pot holds the Button's 10bb plus the blinds, 11.5bb in all, and it costs you 9bb more to call. Call and you are all-in with the game on the line. A suited king against a short shove from the Button: call or fold?

How to think about it

Answer first: the walkthrough opens as soon as you choose, with the numbers behind the right play.

Best answer: Call 9bb

The price
You call 9bb to win a pot of 20.5bb, so the call has to win 44% of the time to break even.
Your chances
Against the hands your opponent plays this way, your hand wins 48% of the time.
The decision
48% is more than the 44% you need, so calling is right — it earns about 0.78bb more than folding.

The full reasoning

Calling is right. The price first: 9bb to call into a pot of 20.5bb once your call is in, so you need to win about 44% of the time. The assumed shoving range is 22+, A2s+, A2o+, K2s+, K8o+, Q7s+, QTo+, J8s+, J9o+, T8s+, 98o, 97s+, 86s+, 76s, 65s and 54s, the 10bb Button shove from the embedded push/fold table. Against it, K♣ 9♣ wins ~48% of the time in the solver-checked recompute. That is above the price, so the call is worth about +0.78bb, and folding leaves that 0.78bb behind. The gap is small but real, and in a short-stack game the small edges are the whole game. Why the king holds up: the Button shoves wide, so much of the range is weaker kings, queens, jacks and suited junk that K9 is ahead of, and it is behind only the pairs and the aces. The suit adds a little, no more. That is the concept: K9 suited at this price is a call, because you only need to win a bit under half the time.

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