Gronk
04-05-2003, 08:08 PM
There's a question after the bit about my hand /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif
I was playing in a $1 buy-in limit tournament which started out with around 800 players. 1st prize is a little over $1000. The lowest you can finish and win money is 15th place. After about 2.5 hours or so we're down to 19 players and I'm in 5th place with a stack of a little over 50k. The limit is up to 5k/10k.
I'm in the big blinds with 95o. EP calls(he has about 4k less than me) and it's checked around to me. I check.
Flop is 945 rainbow. My rags have turned into a monster. I check-raise him. Turn is an ace. I bet, he raises, I reraise(thinking maybe he has an ace king or ace queen). He's all-in now. I forget what the river is. Anyway he had pocket 4s for a flopped set and takes it down. I finish in 19th place the next hand.
My question is, in a situation like this when you're ranked in the top 5, heads up against someone with an almost equal stack and you flop a strong hand should you go to war hoping to double your stack and become the new chip-leader, or should you play it safe and just check and call to the river, maybe waiting for a stronger hand to make your move.
I'm very inexperienced in tournaments so I'm not sure what to do when near the top.
I was playing in a $1 buy-in limit tournament which started out with around 800 players. 1st prize is a little over $1000. The lowest you can finish and win money is 15th place. After about 2.5 hours or so we're down to 19 players and I'm in 5th place with a stack of a little over 50k. The limit is up to 5k/10k.
I'm in the big blinds with 95o. EP calls(he has about 4k less than me) and it's checked around to me. I check.
Flop is 945 rainbow. My rags have turned into a monster. I check-raise him. Turn is an ace. I bet, he raises, I reraise(thinking maybe he has an ace king or ace queen). He's all-in now. I forget what the river is. Anyway he had pocket 4s for a flopped set and takes it down. I finish in 19th place the next hand.
My question is, in a situation like this when you're ranked in the top 5, heads up against someone with an almost equal stack and you flop a strong hand should you go to war hoping to double your stack and become the new chip-leader, or should you play it safe and just check and call to the river, maybe waiting for a stronger hand to make your move.
I'm very inexperienced in tournaments so I'm not sure what to do when near the top.