Premature All-in?

[iblucky4u2]

I'm playing a 10 table NLHE tourney. Down to 30 players, 10 get paid. I'm have 1900 chips - average stack 4000+. Blinds are 200-400 and going up to 300-600. I've been playing very tight and pick up 77 UTG. I thought my choices were all-in or fold. Folding would leave me with 1000 chips after the blinds. Was all-in premature?

[boedeker]

im all in here 100 percent of the time.

[Roman]

pretty standard all in.

[Ross]

No any pocket pair will do. You need to double up you hope a big Ace reraises drives everyone out and you hold up. If I had the choice I would have made a stand in the previous round in a late position with something as weak a JTs rather than try to take on the whole table with pocket 7's but right now they will do.

regards

Ross

[iblucky4u2]

In general, any attempts to steal from late position would have bee stone cold bulffs - I consistantly had hands like 86o, 69 (dinner for two) etc. The best I had was 83s. People were protecting their blinds for 3-5x BB bets with almost nothing. Amazing.

[mntbikr15]

I push this every time.

[davidross]

You need to make those all-in bluffs anyway. But not for 3X, you push all-in so they know you won't back down. You want to keep your stack big enough to limit the hands that will call you. I've done it with 53, and you can still win if called.

[iblucky4u2]

Thanks for the advice - that's why I love 2+2 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]