Calling an early open push

[KCW12]

Hypothetical situation: It's level 1 in a 9-man SNG, you post the BB. UTG open pushes for his whole stack and it folds around to you. Assume everyone has equal stack sizes, no reads. What hands are you calling with at each buyin level?

[jurrasstoil]

based on his sharkscope results: QQ+ (even so i don't think a winning player would do that...)
no reads no sharkscope: KK+

[hoyasaxa]

KK+

[hoyasaxa]

fwiw ive seen this happen once, he had kk, i had qq, spiked a q on the flop

[Sober]

There are people who actually play Brunson's ultra-basic strategy for clueless retards: "fold everything except AK and pairs, then push." At lower buyins, you'll see people open pushing 20+bbs with any suited ace even. That doesn't mean you should stack off with TT. Here I'm folding everything but KK+, calling with QQ or lower if I've seen him do it before.

[UsedToPitch]

i just called on a 26 dollar sng with 88 wound up against AK and held woo sportsbook garbage players on there not that im not garbage

[dipstikdave]

i posted a hand last year where i called w/ AKo at a $16. the forum seemed to be split on whether or not it was a good play. villain had J3s in that one. if you look at it from a $/hr standpoint i think JJ+,AK is reasonable.

[alex-star]

Nah, I would not call without QQ+. No need to flip or even take a 60/40 early on.

[Sober]

Sammykid and I were talking about this last week, and alex-star's comment made me think about it:

Is taking a coinflip early in the tournament good for your hourly rate? Assuming you're 8+ tabling continuously.

The question here is, is it better to take that flip and bust out in l1 or l2, thus freeing up another tournament to open? In theory, you'll get in more games per hour, while with a slightly lower winrate because you're busting more often, but the times you don't bust you'll place higher (generally speaking).

Has anyone traveled down this line of thought?

[J-P]

ya i believe there have been a few threads talk about this more in depth