This was (in effect) my exit hand at the Goliath and a virtually identical situation came up in an online qualifier last night. I won the hand last night, but the opponent wasn"t impressed with the play.
I can"t remember the exact chip counts but in both cases I had a similar chip stack to my opponent, we were both around 30/35 blinds deep and the blinds were worth winning.
Early position (pretty solid) villain sticks in a 3.5 x raise. It is a larger raise than the table norm which is around min plus/2.5 x
I am on the button with
and decide to call the raise as I don"t want to be shoved on if I re-raise.
The flop comes
and the villain leads out with another big bet of around 75 pc of the pot. Now I think that barring a set, that"s about as good as it gets for 10 10 and shove. The villain has to call 23 x (ish) into a 46 x (ish) pot and on both occasions they insta-called and showed
The first time I missed, the second time I hit a six and won the pot.
Question 1: Am I playing this situation optimally - If not what should I be doing? Can I afford to just call the flop bet? Should I ever be folding on that flop?
Question 2: Should it always be an insta-call from my opponent? My image is not overly loose and I can have quite a few hands that are already beating him? I suppose 2/1 means that he does?
Any views gratefully received.