The End of Tournament

[Ironman]

Hi Guys,

Need some help at the end of a tournament.

Here's the situation.

$100 buy in. 44 players.

Down to the last 4 people. Blinds have just gone up to 2500/5000.

We all have roughly the same amount of chips.

My stack is about 8,000....chip leader is at 12,000. So everyone is within one hand of eachother.

I post my 5,000 big blind and look at 5 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Fold, Fold, SB raises all in.

So my question is...at what point do you give up on winning and just try to hold on to move up one more place on the money list?

I really wanted to fold this...but just couldn't.

Thanks everyone.

Ironman Dave

First, play a tournament with a more reasonable blind structure. From your post, it sounds like there are 40000 total chips in play and the blinds are 2500/5000? Y'ok.

You have 65% of your chips in preflop and you're probably facing two overcards and are no worse than a 3:1 dog. You have to call 3000 more to win 13000. There's no possible way to justify folding here unless someone will be forced all-in by the blinds on the next hand and finishing 3rd instead of 4th means that much to you.

If you want to have any chance at winning, you have to call.

Fix your blind structure

Maybe a 95% call, but it really depends on exact chip stacks, position relative to each other, and the payout structure.