Hi,

I have been playing low buy in ($6 and $11) NL HE SnGs for a few months now and have started to see an improvement in my results since reading the helpful posts on this forum.

Last night I was playing an $11 10 player SnG and was in the last 3 with the short stack with around 3500 chips. Blinds were at 300/600 I pushed from the button with 9 5o to steal the blinds, a tactic used successfully for the previous few orbits by all 3 players. I was called by the Big stack and when the cards were flipped he held 8 4o!!! He paired his 4 on the board and i was out, c'est la vie.

My question is, was this just a dumb call by him, or is there a more advanced theory that made that call for him a +EV? If so, would somebody explain it to me cos I was totally gobsmacked to be called by that hand!!! My thinking is he probably just clicked the call button by mistake and got lucky!!!

Regards