my first live tournament
i am basically a SS Hold 'Em player, but i have played some Sit N Go's online and the local casino was having a WPT satellite so i thought i would enter. the field was 130ish to start with. here is my question/scenario:
down to 2 tables from 13, maybe 15 players total. blinds are now 1500/700, i am in the big blind. the blinds are due to raise in the next 10 minutes or so. my chip stack was a measly 5200 before the BB. so i post it is folded around to the SB who completes(note: the small blind was the table chip leader and the most aggressive player at the table next to me). i look at my hole cards and they are K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]10 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. so i move in. he calls with A3o and his A high held up and i was out; there were now 12 players in the tournament. only the top 9 payed. was this a good spot? if i was going to make any impact i needed to get it done pretty quick as the blinds were reaching a point that i would be all-in next go round anyway. i knew he would likely call, i just hoped he did not have an A or a pocket pair, or a bigger K. also, i think i was maybe the second biggest stack at the table at that time. would i have been better to try to let the blinds eat the other guys up so i could try to sneak into the money? what would be the optimum tourney strategy here guys? like i said, i am very inexperienced at tourney play, but i am very aware of equity, theory, etc.
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