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$5 MTT. We are closing in on the bubble. Blinds are 50/150. I have about 4500 in chips and I'm an easy shot to cash and probably even hit the 2nd rung of the pay scale if I don't get too crazy.
I am dealt
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[Ks] on the button. UTG3 raises to 400. He seems very aggessive and has raised with many hands and not been tested yet. The two players behind him immediately call. I have them all covered. The two callers have about 2500 and 3000, the orignal raiser has about 3600 total before the cards were dealt. I could push, get a call, and lose and still have 900 left, but then I definitely have to at least double up pretty quick if I want to cash. If I take one of these guys out I will probably be top 3 in chip leaders.
I don't think preflop raiser is particularly strong. If the two callers had KK or AA they definitely would have raised there, so I think my A and K are both live cards. However, there is a good chance I am up against a high pocket pair and a big Ace or KQ or even AK which takes some of my outs away and makes it less than a coin flip. Considering stack size and my spot in the tourny right now, would you call, raise, push, or even lay it down?
Statistics: Posted by MTPaid — Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:33 pm
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I can see that being a LAG and accumulating chips is smart, if only because it can insulate you against one or two bad beats. If you've gotten enough chips in the middle of the tournament, you can survive more than one bad beat. Beginning and end, forget it. One and done.
I can also see surviving at all costs. In the middle, if you have few chips, you're in no worse shape than you are at the beginning. Even if you are down to just the blinds, you are only three double ups from being way up the board. You're still in it, and in NL, never far out of it. Really. You can win if you never are all in. You're going to lose all but the last hand, if you're lucky. So survival does has its arguments.
Lots of ways of thinking about this.
(You're sitting in a tournament that your wife gave you as a birthday present. You don't have any idea what it cost. How will you play it?)
CJ
Statistics: Posted by Cactus Jack — Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:40 pm
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To say that you play differently depending on the buy in or bankroll means that you would play the same hands differently, right? So you're saying there are two ways to play every hand, with either being correct?
Pardon me for being slow, but that really doesn't make any sense to me. Granted, if I were crazy enough to beg, borrow or steal a buy in to the WSOP, I probably wouldn't play the same as I'd play a $5 rebuy on Stars, but that doesn't mean I'd play better. Probably would mean I'd play much, much worse.
I guarantee one thing: The players who win often are looking for players who are only hoping to move up. They are sharkbait, par excellence.
I'm not going to take a coin flip in the first hour. I may not for quite awhile. I know at some point I will have to, but some players are quite willing to play any edge, as long as they are convinced it's in their favor. Is this nothing more than psychology?
(Pardon me, but I've taken more bad beats in the last 3 days than I've ever, ever seen before, so my mind is a little less clear than it should be.)
Statistics: Posted by Cactus Jack — Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:40 pm
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