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[QUOTE="sandy358, post: 7143251, member: 1040401"]
* In early or mid-stage MTTs strong pocket pairs are good enough. Though it depends on how long you have been observing the agression and how often they shove in general (you don't want to find yourself hands up with pocket nines against someone who just happened to have a bunch of relatively strong hands preflop). A bit riskier play is to call them with strong aces or medium to low pocket pairs, but in these cases you will have a large chance to bust, even though it will be less than 50%. If they act after you and shove often enough, just abandon all speculative hands aka suited connectors, low pocket pairs or low suited aces or relatively stuff like JTs even, get ready to call a shove or fold, otherwise you will be just giving out your bets to the maniac who will shove over you.
Also, please, do not call shoves with hands that are only good because of the implied odds, because you have none against shovers. Have been seeing blunders like that for a while now.

* Using the same aggression is not a good idea. If someone makes mistakes - exploit them, not make the same exact mistake, it's just useless and doesn't extract value. Also you can't bluff someone who has already shoved, they will always at bare minimum see the river. If they act after you, then it only takes them to fold for you to be in a big trouble against other strong callers on the table.
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