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I think this is a very good fold in practice. Unless the player has been playing very aggressive preflop a 4x 3-bet after a raise and call from early positions is strong. This raise would make up the range you said, of Ax pairs and some KQ, KJs. And assuming you hit an ace there is a lot of reverse implied odds of him having a better ace. If you also feel it may go 3 way A7 becomes even more likely to be outkicked. And with no straight draws only other equity is a flush which depending on their holdings may be face up and get no value after a 3-Bet preflop. I think the fold is the best option given all these things.
I believe that your line makes sense given the read and the stack sizes. With him playing so loose and with such a large stack I think your shove makes sense. If you flat call the 35, you have 65 behind. The pot would already be 92 assuming that the lojoack folds, and 112 if he calls(which he does). On a flop, you are only looking for really 2 cards, the other 10’s, while trying to dodge most over cards. This makes most flops hard to play with a small stack and almost no fold equity against a loose player. Also, by reraising pre you have some fold equity against the lojack. He needs to call $85 with a player behind just to see the flop.
Now as an aside I think that folding is actually better than calling. With two people behind you will reach a lot of flip situations where you are dodging three or more over cards(A9s and QJs for instance) and flush and straight draws. With this in mind and seeing that calling helps the lojacks pot odds bringing him in more often I would take folding over calling. That’s just my opinion though
I definitely have seen that 2 people would call either way. But it is definitely hard to get away from and when I thought about the amount of outs I thought that calling was good even after knowing my stack would mostly be in. With a small blind raise I figured he would shove, but still figured calling was the best choice for all of the chips. That’s where I didn’t know is best is calling for all with that hand. Thanks for the input very much Matt!
