[2005]

OK, first of all, I don't like your limp. The stacks are definitely not deep enough for you to call to flop a set, and other than flopping a set, there are no safe flops for you. Pushing wouldn't be terrible, but I fold preflop.

I have contentions with your reasons #5 & 6. If you call and lose you only have 4200, just over 5 BB, that's pretty awful shape. If you call and win, you have 14k, which isn't even 20 BB. As far as I can tell, there isn't an amount of chips, save all of them, where you are in "good shape to win the tournament" b/c of the size of the blinds compared to the number of chips in play.

All that being said, if I see the flop here, I call b/c in order to win this tournament you're going to have to gamble at some point, and getting 2-1(you're getting 2-1 not 3-1) I think it's worth a shot.

I'm gonna presume you called and won and the guy got steamed and questioned your play.

Gavin Griffin