Re: Tournament Scenerio -- What would you do?
What do you mean by playing to survive? Survive until the next hand, the next level, until you're in the money, what exactly?
More likely than not, thinking about playing to survive will cause you to make some serious mistakes. It's one thing to be playing to survive on the bubble, and another entirely to be trying to survive in the early going. Usually, people who are even thinking about surviving early on, will fold themselves out of the tourney after outlasting about 50-75% of the field. However, since you don't get paid for outlasting 75% of the field, this strategy does you little good.
As for the hand in particular, I would very seldom limp in with 77 for 8% of my stack. If other people had limped in already, then I would probably limp in as well. But, if I'm the first one in here, I'm raising almost every time.
Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)
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