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How\'s my strategy approaching the bubble?
Played in only my second MTT last night. It was a freeroll at party
paid for with party points. I played one other MTT about a year ago that was a satelite or similar. I decided to play for the experience. NL MTT with 1500 entries (most must have been chowder heads as they were dropping like flies) Basically I played really tight. I would drop slightly below average chip stack and then double up on an all in. Repeated this a handfull of times. Hands were as follows: (me) KK vs. 10 10 I won (me) AKs all in from blind in family limped pot I won uncontested (me) 99 vs. AJ I reraised all in and lost this one but had plenty left over (me) AQ vs. AJ I limped in ep and called smaller stack all in AK vs. AK tie Down to under 50 players with only the top 30 in the money. My stack is less than average at this point and based on stack sizes (and all things being equal) if I blinded off I would either go out within a few places of the money or just squeek in the money. I've played my fair share of low limit Sit n Go's in the past and it's not my style to be ultra conservative in efforts to try and squeek into the money. Also in this MTT just placing in the money would be -EV for me on a $ per hour basis, but like I said my main objective was for the MTT experience. We are down to under 45 players and there are 2 players at my table who I evaluate as better than me. One of them is the tourney chip leader or close to that. I do not want to be seeing flops with these two opponents unless I have a monster as they can both outplay me post flop. I have QQ in the blind. One of the 2 at the table who can outplay me open limps. She has me covered. Chip leader mini raises from mid position to 2000t (this means he has 2 cards). Next player, seems solid, re-raises to 5000t. This player has about another 12000t behind him. I'm guessing at this point he is comitting himself and wants action but I'm not sure. I'm sure he has a strong hand but he might be leaving himself enough behind him to fold. I have QQ in the blind. I have about 21000t. As an aside: The open limper (who can outplay me) has the BB when I'm on the button. She has double my stack. This is far from the ideal situation for stealing blinds. So I have QQ and don't want to fold here. I would not consider it the 'good experience' I'm looking for to fold my QQ and get blinded off waiting for a solid hand. I also don't want to turn into 'scared money' as the blinds are going up soon and if I wait and then try to steal with an average hand and get called I'm going to be dreading it if I don't hit the flop well. It that position I will either need to get lucky (probably more than once) to place in the money or make a play for a raised pot on a smallish stack. I don't like these choices. I can't wait for AA/KK. So I push. EP limper folds, Chip leader thinks for a fairly long time and folds, solid player calls all in and shows AKs, hits and wins. Now I have about 4500t and the big blind is 2000t. Do I call all in with any hand from the big blind? I wasn't sure but at the time I was figuring that it would be foolish to fold in the big blind and small blind but maybe there are circumstances for doing so? I didn't think so. A few hands passed and I open pushed with Q 10 from either late postion or cutoff +1 hoping to get lucky. I was still 10 spots out of the money hear and though. I figured with about 4-5 more hands to look at this might be my best opportunity. Was this a mistake? Ironically one of the two who could outplay me re-raised to 1000t from either cutoff or button and the chip leader pondered and called from the big blind. They checked it through and each had overpairs (QQ and KK). And I was done about 10 out of the money. Like I said this was only my second MTT so I'm looking for any feedback that can be offered. |
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Re: How\'s my strategy approaching the bubble?
i did not read the whole post, but you will generally get more/better responses if you post a single hand.
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Re: How\'s my strategy approaching the bubble?
You made the right call in my opinion. Unless you put the re-raise on a higher PP then it was a good call. Turns out you went in with the best hand 53%-47%. You can't ask for much more than that. You did not want to squeeze into the money and if you won here you probably would have had a solid stack.
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Re: How\'s my strategy approaching the bubble?
I had about the same situation today. Stack below average, 30 get paid, 50 left, i get AQs, 2 limp, i push, get called by 66 and bust. I think it was the right play.
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Re: How\'s my strategy approaching the bubble?
I would think pushing is correct.
Playing any hand in the BB is correct. |
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