GEN: flat vs squeeze when shallow

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GEN: flat vs squeeze when shallow

Hey guys, I have a general question for the MTT wizards out here.

I have this hand that made me think:

Live tournament, 200€, full of weak players, OK structure. An old guy, that has been pretty limpy and nitty (very straightforward postflop), opens for a minraise from the CO. He hadn't opened much before, but we just came back from dinner break, and he now had 20bb. I'd say he has more incentives to try to steal than when he had 40bb and wanted to see flops, but at the same time IDK, he might continue limping with 20bb and only open premiums.

BTN flats on the BTN, he covers. He's definitely putting dead money very often here, he's not a good player. Probably not even thinking that CO is shorter than before, nor that blinds could squeeze.

SB folds, I have 22BB in the BB with 88. What's your play here? Tournament is very soft, I'm not scared at all to gamble, get to a bigger stack, because I have a crazy image and probably value in having a bigger stack to play along with a variety of sea creatures :D.

Squeeze seems kind of standard, but having such a nitty opener makes me want to flat more, especially as I think I'll have some ability to make postflop live reads. BTN is dead money very often though (he'll probably fold AJ if I squeeze).


So, what do you think of this spot, and what do you think of flatting more in general with good squeezing stacks, when facing either too tight players, or players against whom we have little FE (say, people with 200bb stacks that will rarely open/fold to resteals from 25bb stacks)?


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