SparkyDog
04-24-2004, 02:22 PM
Playing a 5.50 SNG at Pokerstars with blinds at 75/150, I found myself the short stack (~T1500) on the bubble with a loose passive player on my left(~T3000), a rock on my immediate right (~T2700), and a loose aggressive (~T6000) trapped betweeen. LAG would raise about 1/3 of the time, from any position. I could tell that he was splashing around, bullying others with his stack on the bubble.
My strategy was to fold just about anything to a raise from anyone, push if I was the first in with hands as bad as K8s, A8o, and not call anything, but rather re-raise or fold. Often I would fold questionable hands when LAP and LPP were in the blinds, to hope one of them knocked the other out, since I was guessing that the rock wasn't going anywhere until he made the money. Some examples of my playing too tight perhaps:
Folding T9s UTG (already know the answer to this one, way too tight and scared)
Folding 78o to 4xBB raise from LAP when in the BB
folding Q8o on the button
folding J8o UTG
raising K /images/graemlins/heart.gifT /images/graemlins/diamond.gif pre-flop, then folding it to a 1/2 pot bet from LAP on a 8 /images/graemlins/heart.gif 4 /images/graemlins/club.gif 6 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif board
raising A /images/graemlins/spade.gif9 /images/graemlins/heart.gif pre-flop, then folding it to 3/4 pot bet from LAP on a 5 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 7 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif Q /images/graemlins/diamond.gif board
When in this situation, does one just hope to catch decent cards (I wasn't seeing anything good really) or wait until another busts out, or do you try to play back at the big stack, even without a safety net if it doesn't work?
My strategy was to fold just about anything to a raise from anyone, push if I was the first in with hands as bad as K8s, A8o, and not call anything, but rather re-raise or fold. Often I would fold questionable hands when LAP and LPP were in the blinds, to hope one of them knocked the other out, since I was guessing that the rock wasn't going anywhere until he made the money. Some examples of my playing too tight perhaps:
Folding T9s UTG (already know the answer to this one, way too tight and scared)
Folding 78o to 4xBB raise from LAP when in the BB
folding Q8o on the button
folding J8o UTG
raising K /images/graemlins/heart.gifT /images/graemlins/diamond.gif pre-flop, then folding it to a 1/2 pot bet from LAP on a 8 /images/graemlins/heart.gif 4 /images/graemlins/club.gif 6 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif board
raising A /images/graemlins/spade.gif9 /images/graemlins/heart.gif pre-flop, then folding it to 3/4 pot bet from LAP on a 5 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 7 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif Q /images/graemlins/diamond.gif board
When in this situation, does one just hope to catch decent cards (I wasn't seeing anything good really) or wait until another busts out, or do you try to play back at the big stack, even without a safety net if it doesn't work?