Bubble finishes

[aslowjoe]

I thought I would break up the monotomy of LHE and work on my SNG's. Small sample but looks like a trend might be developing. These are for 30's at Party.

120 games
17-13-10-21.

way to many bubble finishes. I have glanced over the ICM it looks very interesting. Do they have a real time application? When I am on the bubble I guess I should pay as much attention to my prize equity as pot odds? Should you pass a 20% equity edge on the bubble when folding still gives you 6 or 7 times the blinds left over and calling and losing takes you out or cripples you.

a 3 word answer to clarify all this would be great. or

A few comments to point my thinking in a general direction would suffice.

Sounds familiar. I have been playing online for about 3 years but have only recently found this forum within the past few months. I have started to employ the pushing ideal in later rounds with less than 10x with hands like J/10, K9, etc but so often wind up getting called by junk like A/2, k/6, etc and busting out. I'm wondering if I should tighten up more in late stages but I am hoping it is just variance and eventually the people who call with mediocre cards will start to pay for it.

The other day I got knocked out in 4th 3 straight tourneys by people who called off over half their stacks with pocket 2's.

In general (very general), the gap concept becomes very exaggerated on the bubble. This means you should be much more willing to raise all in (Read a few posts here, and you'll see that you should sometimes push with any two cards) than you should be to call an all in.

There's a program called Sit and Go Power Tools (SnGPT) by eastbay that uses ICM to tell you whether you should call/push in various situations (assuming you know your opponents' pushing/calling ranges). It comes with a tutorial that explains basic bubble play way better than I can--This part comes with the free version. I think it's linked to in the FAQ, but if not, you can google it.

[11t]

Don't push weak hands versus people with wide calling ranges.

From my experience, finishing 4th a lot but winning more 1sts than 2nd or 3rd is typically a sign of a winning player.