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I am having a discussion with someone about the correct way to play a hand. Your opinion would be appreciated. This is heads up in a satellite, winner takes all. Blinds are 400-800. There is a total of 10,500 of chips in play. You are on the big blind with 1,800, so you have placed 800 in the big blind leaving you with 1,000. The small blind raises you all in. You have 64o.
Should you call or fold?

Answer 1:

Call. You’re getting 2600 for your 1000 call. Unless you are highly confident that your opponent has a pair 66 or higher, those are more than adequate pot odds. You’re only about a 3:2 dog to 2 over cards. It sucks, but the only solution is to never get in that spot in the first place, right?

Answer 2:

Against most aggressive players you should call. This isn’t really a tournament-type decision. It’s heads-up and so you are playing for a single prize. (Note that it doesn’t matter whether there’s second place money or not — you BOTH already won that!) Because 6-4 almost has equity in a fixed-limit ring game against many types of opponents in the small blind, it almost has equity now for a 2.25 to 1 (instead of a 2 to 1) raise. Normally, it gains back something, because it will have position on future rounds of betting against the small blinds. This is not the case heads-up, where the blind positions are generally reversed and the big blind acts first on all subsequent rounds. But, you are neutralizing any positional advantage by being all-in.If you wait, you will probably have better chances next hand, but you’ll only have $1,000 and $400 will be a blind. The increased chance of winning the next hand doesn’t usually override the decrease in money if you fold. Figure you’re going to win about 1/3 of the hands now (assuming slight selectivity on your opponent’s part) and 1/2 on the next hand if you fold now and then play. This makes the decision close against some opponents, but not against most aggressive ones. There are, of course, other factors at work here, too — but that’s the main consideration. By the way, the amount of chips on the table has very little relevance — except in measuring how it will affect the next blinds. Usually call.

Answer 3:

Of course, “it depends” (surprise!) on what you know about your opponent… However, that having been said, you are getting $2,600-to-$1,000 pot odds, and your 6-4-offsuit is that much of an underdog or worse only to opposing pairs of 6′s or higher, plus just a few other odd types of hands*** ***Test your intuition… Your 6-4-offsuit would also be worse than 2.60-to-1 underdog to any A-6-suited, or A-6-offsuit with the A-6 in the suits of your own two cards, or any K-6-suited, or K-6-offsuit in your two suits, or Q-6-suited in a suit different from the suit of your 4 — all in the 2.60-to-1 to 2.74-to-1 range. Now, I’ve left out one other type of opposing hand here to which you would be worse than 2.60-to-1 — can you guess what it is?!