URGENT: Can I sit out and get my seat?

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Everything I've read says to loosen up on teh bubble b/c all the other players will tighten up.



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Not really in satellites.

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To clarify, if you're in a regular tournament, you want to accumulate chips on the bubble because you want to come in the highest place possible. In a sattelite, you want to make it through the bubble because nothing else is worth anything.

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Everything I've read says to loosen up on teh bubble b/c all the other players will tighten up.



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Not really in satellites.

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To clarify, if you're in a regular tournament, you want to accumulate chips on the bubble because you want to come in the highest place possible. In a sattelite, you want to make it through the bubble because nothing else is worth anything.

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I agree. But since everyone is thinking that way, why not try to blind steal with some hands that I can easily get away from? I'm not talking AT or AJ, but hands that I can raise that, if I'm re-raised, I can drop. That way, I can increase my stack on teh first bubble (they paid places 7-9) so I can cruise past the second, more important bubble.

[Sam T.]

I think y'all are kind of talking past each other here. What (I think) the OP was proposing was playing aggresively so that the end of the tournament doesn't turn into a nail-biter, but doing so without risking his stack. (On a sat. bubble, a min-raise from LP will usually take down the blinds.)

What the responders heard was that the OP was risking his stack to build a huge lead.

Yes, pushing K4 was dumb. Calling with KQ was worse. (Depending on stack sizes of course.)

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I think y'all are kind of talking past each other here. What (I think) the OP was proposing was playing aggresively so that the end of the tournament doesn't turn into a nail-biter, but doing so without risking his stack. (On a sat. bubble, a min-raise from LP will usually take down the blinds.)

What the responders heard was that the OP was risking his stack to build a huge lead.

Yes, pushing K4 was dumb. Calling with KQ was worse. (Depending on stack sizes of course.)

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Yup - I agree with you. And, just to clarify, the K4,KQ hand had nothing to do with me. And the KQ was committed and getting the correct odds to call the K4 all-in.