11-01-2001, 05:58 AM
Hi,
This is a hand from last night's small rebuy NLHE tournament. I don't think I had any choice in my play here, and it's just a case of "oh dear how sad never mind" as Andy W would say, but as usual I am wondering if there were other things I should have been considering.
We have just sat down to thefinal table. 8 players, with prize money rising very slowly from 8th-3rd, and a sharp increase for the top two. I have the least chips on the table, 2800 with blinds of 400-400. Everyone else has at least double that, and the chip leader has 15000 or so.
My plan was to get it all-in soon, preferably with something good. This is the same plan I have been working on for the last hour, just winning blinds to survive this far. I only have enough to raise all-in preflop, as far as I can tell.
The question is, does the texture of the game change so much when the final begins that I ought to be changing this plan? I think that now we're in the money, I am more likely to be called. On the other hand, I want to double up. So, I am leaning towards trying to double up rather than trying to steal. But, I still want to be coming in with a raise rather than limping speculatively. Am I thinking about this correctly?
Anyway, here's the hand. AQ in the cutoff. Three limpers to me.
If I'm playing, I'm going all-in. Is there a choice here? Would anybody muck this, or just limp?
Guy.
P.S. just to sate curiosity: raised all-in, everyone folds except last limper who thinks for a minute and is told "you have to call don't you?" by others at the table. He calls, shows KJ and outflops me. I don't mind that at all.
This is a hand from last night's small rebuy NLHE tournament. I don't think I had any choice in my play here, and it's just a case of "oh dear how sad never mind" as Andy W would say, but as usual I am wondering if there were other things I should have been considering.
We have just sat down to thefinal table. 8 players, with prize money rising very slowly from 8th-3rd, and a sharp increase for the top two. I have the least chips on the table, 2800 with blinds of 400-400. Everyone else has at least double that, and the chip leader has 15000 or so.
My plan was to get it all-in soon, preferably with something good. This is the same plan I have been working on for the last hour, just winning blinds to survive this far. I only have enough to raise all-in preflop, as far as I can tell.
The question is, does the texture of the game change so much when the final begins that I ought to be changing this plan? I think that now we're in the money, I am more likely to be called. On the other hand, I want to double up. So, I am leaning towards trying to double up rather than trying to steal. But, I still want to be coming in with a raise rather than limping speculatively. Am I thinking about this correctly?
Anyway, here's the hand. AQ in the cutoff. Three limpers to me.
If I'm playing, I'm going all-in. Is there a choice here? Would anybody muck this, or just limp?
Guy.
P.S. just to sate curiosity: raised all-in, everyone folds except last limper who thinks for a minute and is told "you have to call don't you?" by others at the table. He calls, shows KJ and outflops me. I don't mind that at all.