88 UTG on KJ7r: Short Stack, Multiway Jam

Hero
8♥8♦
Position
UTG vs BB
Pot
All-In Preflop
Flop
K♥ J♦ 7♣

With 88 and a short stack jamming, we should open small, call the shove, then fold to BB’s flop jam on KJ7r.

Flop Analysis

Flop comes KJ7 rainbow. BB now jams their last 7BB into a pot of about 33BB, giving us roughly 4.7:1 and requiring only ~17.5% equity. Solver prefers folding 88 here around 62% of the time, and the hand features don’t change that: we’re often up against Kx/Jx and strong pairs, and our 8x blocks some of the natural bluff combos. Calling is defensible but slightly lower EV than folding.

Key Concepts

  • <2
  • Neutral Range
  • IP
  • Dry Board
  • POT CONTROL