Hellmuth's Mole;337564 wroteInteresting situation at the last Brantford tourny.
7 handed blinds are 10k/20k 3k ante. Sitting with 130k (2nd stack although fairly tight grouping) behind on the big blind. UTG+1 shoves for 47k, UTG+2 who is chip leader (about 170k) and has built his stack quickly playing fairly aggro just flats. Folded to me who must put in 27k more with J9o.
Obviously math is one thing but with a read of strength on the chip leader what is my move?
What makes you think the CL is strong in this spot? You mention that he built his stack quickly playing aggro but that doesn't mean much as a read w/o more info since there's 51k in the pot preflop and he could've got his current stack with just two shoves preflop.
I'd really consider moving in and isolating here. There's 145k in the pot and, if you can get a fold, you're getting like 5.5:1 on 27k. On the flip side, you'd be giving CL 1.6-1.7:1 after you shove but I think that's still a decent amount of fold equity depending on the player, especially live.
Obviously, if I did have a read of strength (re: no fold equity), I'd just muck.