Re-shove
Going all-in over someone else's open; also called a 3-bet shove.
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- What it means
- A re-shove is an all-in 3-bet against a single open, the main weapon of a 12 to 30bb stack. You win the open and the blinds when the opener folds, and play for your stack when they call.
- How it is calculated
- EV(re-shove) = fold chance × pot now + call chance × (equity when called × final pot − stack). The drill computes the opener's calling range from their opening chart and the preflop equity table, and your equity against it, then compares that with folding.
- Worked example
- At 18bb in the big blind, the cutoff opens to 2bb. The pot is 2 + 1.5 + 6 × 0.125 = 4.25bb. If the cutoff folds 70% of the time and you have 35% equity when called, EV = 0.7 × 3.125 + 0.3 × (0.35 × 37 − 18) ≈ +0.67bb, where 37bb is both stacks plus the 1bb of dead blinds and antes, against −1.125bb for folding the big blind.
- Why it matters
- Opens get wider as stacks get shorter, and re-shoving punishes them without ever facing a decision after the flop. Both parts matter: fold equity pays for the times you are called with the worse hand.
See also: Fold equity, Push/fold, Stack depth, Required equity