Pokerstars 2.20 New Years Series

Pokerstars 2.20 New Years Series

PokerStars - 2500/5000 Ante 625 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 76.69 BB
Hero (BTN): 23.54 BB
SB: 25.55 BB
BB: 27.72 BB
UTG: 15.93 BB
UTG+1: 8.67 BB
MP: 19.58 BB
MP+1: 31.78 BB

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

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.5 BB) Hero has 9 9

fold, UTG+1 raises to 8.55 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, fold, Hero ???,

What is the play here?

Call or Fold?

Unlikey he is never doing this with 55,66,77,88, etc.

17 January 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Under the International GTO Compliance Act §4.2, folding this hand or even considering folding it is classified as a criminal offense against equity. Sentence: mandatory solver re-education.

Call or rejam are both acceptable.


by MTT DB Review

Under the International GTO Compliance Act §4.2, folding this hand or even considering folding it is classified as a criminal offense against equity. Sentence: mandatory solver re-education.

Call or rejam are both acceptable.

Very nice. And for the record, I prefer re-jam. You’re probably in trouble if one of the blinds shows up with TT+ (and probably going to gii anyway). A rejam could fold out overcard type hands that might call the relatively small initial jam and improve our equity.


Why call this shallow? Seems a clear jam to me.


Did you ask to fold? If you consider folding this, just quit playing poker please.

Super +ev call. Yes villian is prolly jamming 22 through 88. It’s a $2.20 tourny lolz. Prolly just jam 23bbs to iso. You can call and plan your call behind also but jam prolly ideal.


they only understand one command - "solver approved"

joke, I've been there too


I am never folding here because the range of an 8.5 bb player who jams is typically Ax/KXs/22+/2 broadways/etc. so we have a huge advantage overall.

I am always jamming here because we have some fold equity against SB & BB hands like AT/AJo/KQs and possibly TT/AJs/AQo and I prefer not to be up against 2 or more players. Also if we called and SB or BB jammed we would have to call anyway.


by MTT DB Review

Under the International GTO Compliance Act §4.2, folding this hand or even considering folding it is classified as a criminal offense against equity. Sentence: mandatory solver re-education.

Call or rejam are both acceptable.

I can't stop laughing


At 23bb on the button you've got a pretty clean shove or fold spot here. Flatting is the worst option because you're just going to get squeezed out of the pot by the blinds with no room to manoeuvre postflop.


So the BB woke up with a big hand, huh?

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