10 bigs or less?

does anyone here strictly follow the 10bb rule and shove or does anyone wait longer and try to find a hand ??

I pretty much stick to the shove or fold method at that point. Very few times do I stray away from that. If I have a great hand and I think two other stacks may be ignoring me, I might call along and hope I get lucky and triple, but otherwise I am shove or fold.

not strictly, but it depends on the game type, in MTT's yes i pretty much always jam, in hyper turbos i rarely jam all in.

waiting to find a hand is overrated in a lot of tournaments especially MTT's where you need a big stack and to take on many flips to reach the final table. The key is having that big stack early, so you can survive many more flips with 10bb stacks and still be in the tournament.

DatSh1tCray said:

does anyone here strictly follow the 10bb rule and shove or does anyone wait longer and try to find a hand ??

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shoving or folding when low on BBs is standard
not shoving 27o the second you hit the 10bb mark tho lol
you can still see a few orbits and wait for a decent hand or spot (like blind vs blind)
less players in a hand, the better the odds

Not necessarily a shove,if you so close to bubble burst,you still can fold and wait after you sneaked into the money.

joe777 said:

Not necessarily a shove,if you so close to bubble burst,you still can fold and wait after you sneaked into the money.

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This is bad if you have a hand worth shoving for an opportunity to double up or better.

In fact, you're much better finding a spot to get it in when you have 10BBs, even with a slightly better than average hand than getting blinded down just waiting to min-cash.

I follow the 10BB rule, but I'm also open to open-shoving with 20BBs+. I try not let my stack fall below the 10BBs, but sometimes it can't be helped, like if I just took a bad beat and I'm down to 8BBs. I won't let it fall on my own by folding too often and getting blinded down. I'll shove a large range of hands, on the button vs blind, blind vs blind, and open shove from MP with any decent holding.

I found out that 10 big blinds are good to go and a shove will be idiotic in my opinion a wait is the better approach
1. if you in the money then you will better paid when other will fall
2. on the bubble with 10 big blinds it better to wait and get paid
3. you luck can changed in a sec and if you will shove you will never know....

assafyer said:

I found out that 10 big blinds are good to go and a shove will be idiotic in my opinion a wait is the better approach
...wait for what? For your stack to get smaller before you shove a hand? You're more likely to bleed chips by folding than you are to pick up a premium hand. By that time, it's too late.

1. if you in the money then you will better paid when other will fall
...If you're already in the money, then dont even worry about waiting for a premium hand. jam it in with anything decent.

2. on the bubble with 10 big blinds it better to wait and get paid
...not if your goal is to win the tournament. If your goal when you play is to just make the money by playing tight and folding when it's the bubble, then don't even play. You're just wasting your time. Your goal should be to win and in order to do that, you need to take risks when you have 10BBs to double or better.

3. you luck can changed in a sec and if you will shove you will never know....
...I agree, a lot of luck is needed to win tournaments, but you shouldn't rely on 'luck' to give you a good hand when you're bleeding chips through antes and blinds. The lower you get, the more 'luck' you'll need. If you shove 10BBs, you're about a 50% to double to 20BBs in most situations. If you drop down to 5BBs, you'll need to double up twice to get to 20BBs (because 10BBs is still short) and the odds of that drops to 25%. Better to get it in when you can than to wait for 'luck'.

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