Bubble play at Level 2

[sahala]

I'm playing in a 10-1 right now and two monsters managed to scoop up everyone's chips and it's down to 4. It's level 2 and I'm sitting with 1500 at 3rd place. 4th place is at 1000-ish.

The two big guys are being aggressive in not letting me and the other guy see a flop for cheap.

I know this isn't the right time to be pushing with the blinds so low. I can wait for the guy with less chips to bust out, but I hate playing so passively.

Any suggestions? I'll follow up with my planned strategy and how I placed.

[Iamafish]

wait?

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...but I hate playing so passively.


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do it anyways

[Tilt]

Limp reraise all-in with good hands (A9+, KQ, 99+). Steal their shutout raises like they were blinds. Then you will start to get respect for your limps...and you can see flops again.

[sahala]

Well that went a lot faster than I thought.

The low stack was playing a lot of hands trying to pick up more chips. I ended up just backing off and being a little wuss. He ended up pushing all in with AJo, got busted by QTo. I was happy about that.

Level 4 came around fast and halfway through I picked up QQ and pushed all in. Got called by AK and he picked up a K on the turn to bust me. Fair enough.

[xPuns1her]

Exactly, I wait in this situation unless a pick up a really good hand (JJ-AA). Chances are the low stack is going to go allin first and then its 50-50 for you in the money.

[sahala]

Yeah luckily there was an SB with 3k+ chips in the SB, so he wasn't pushing on my BB that much when he had position.

I was almost enjoying being in between two gorillas.