Down to 5... common situation
PokerStars! $5.00+$0.50 SnG.
We are down to 5 players. Two of the players were at less than 800 chips a dozen or so hands ago, but have managed to remain alive and BB has improved into being a threat again due mainly to being aggressive post flop. The two big chip stacks have been playing very weak.
I've seen all of the players playing marginal hands, so I would have to say that the table is loose, but none of the remaining players are complete goofballs either.
It has been several passes around the table since I have entered a pot, due to poor to marginal hands and waiting for the big stacks to take out the two short stacks. I figured I would be willing to play a marginal hand in order to try and bust out one or both of the short stacks since the bigger stacks didn't seem to want to play aggressively.
What I'm trying to figure out, is should I just continue to play premium hands and steal as the occasion demands or try and bust out at least one of the short stacks? Normally I'm willing to let things run their course, but some tourneys (and this one was a good example) the chip leaders don't finish off the short stack(s) when they are down and then the short stacks come back to be contenders/winners.
Here is the hand. All comments are greatly appreciated.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (5 handed)
UTG (t560)
MP (t3670)
Hero (t2788)
SB (t4347)
BB (t2135)
Preflop: Hero is Button with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
UTG folds, MP calls t100, Hero calls t100, SB completes, BB checks.
Flop: (t400) K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, <font color="CC3333">MP bets t200</font>, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t600</font>, SB folds, <font color="CC3333">BB raises to t2035</font>, MP folds, <font color="CC3333">Hero ???</font>.
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