[citanul]

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whoa. do not call here. it is likely that the absolute best you are here is a coinflip. since button has almost the exact same stack as you, this would not be advisable. no need to flip coins for one's tournament life when you still have 12xBBs.

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This, and the other posts here are correct. This is a very important sort of thing to understand.

The two exercizes which should follow are:

When putting your opponent on a standardish range of pushing hands, what hands should you call with, including what minimum pocket pair?

How does this calling range change with the same stacks but escalating blinds? And for novelty, at what blinds level would calling here with 44 be profitable (note that it is likely htat as the blinds increase you will also have to adjust your standard raising ranges for your opponents.

c

ps: the exercise, which is good to do by hand, is doable with sngpt, probably in incredibly deep detail, in about 2 hours, and is easilly worth at least 10 times the cost of the program all by itself, to a player who plays a fair deal. Alternatively, several people have posted modeling results about push call ranges for different stack depths, and an understanding of karlson-sklansky by itself, while good, isn't quite enough to be perfect