Today you’ll be playing at a major tournament final table with large pay jumps and six players left. Due to the presence of short stacks at the table, larger stacks can put significant pressure on medium stacks.
In this spot, the player on the Button raises to 2 Big Blinds on a 30BB stack and you reraise to 8 Big Blinds on a 50BB stack. Your range will be very polarized here, consisting of very premium hands such as JJ+, AKo, AQs+ as well as preflop semi-bluffs with high card blockers such as A4o and K3o.
Your opponent’s range will be very narrow and consist of medium pocket pairs 55-99, suited and offsuit broadway hands such as QTs+, AJo, KQo and some suited Aces such as A5s-A9s.