Its not ideal to have the chip leader on our direct left. But he is going to remain there for the rest of the tournament, so there is rarely going to be “a better spot”. Sure he might fold UTG, and then we can play a pot against someone else, when we are in the big blind. But other than that he will always be there to act after us, whenever we decide to play a hand.
This is not a complete hand history, and if the two short stacks were running on fumes and likely to bust in the next orbit, then it can be ok to nit up completely. But if they had like 10-15BB, we cannot just sit and wait for them to bust. We are getting blinded away, and maybe they get a dubble, and now suddenly we are the short stack.
Hello there fundiver199, thanks a lot for your ideas and comments!
Thanks everyone who posted here as well, specially the Dude, fundiver199 and Tracid, not in disregard to the others.
Before pushing SB x BB in gap I thought all of these stuff. I really don't think I would have plenty of time to wait for AT, AJ, or a pocke pair (also no guarantee that when these
hands come, that I will beat the opponent).
We were in a six-max table in the FT, for a miracle 3 players were eliminated in just one hand and then the FT got to short. I play Cash 6-Max tables and I know how fast the blinds are, without antes! In 15 minutes, if I didn't play any hand I would be with 8-10 blinds very easily and then players could call me very lighter.
I don't know about you guys, but I love playing for ROI, not to be ITM. Of course I could be nitty and wait for the two other players to go out, and sometimes even more players are eliminated before me. I didn't want to wait, I wanted to take initiative upon the tournament and fight for the first position.
The players on my right were shorter stacked than me, so they will put a lot of pressure trying to double, not giving me room for it (2 shorter stacks players)
The players on my right were all deeper stacked than me (3 deeper stacks players), so I would not put a lot of pressure upon this guys. When I have 17 blinds, I can still hurt the stacks size of a player with 40-50 BB, this is another reason why I decided to push , in gap, SB x BB.
Now, if I have only 8-12 blinds, and decide to push, I will get a ton of lighting calls and ended up busted anyway.
I believe that what fundiver199 is trying to say here is that in the long run, this is the proper line we should take. The player in the BB wasn't a nitty player at all! Versus a nitty I would never push A9o here because the chances of losing is greater.
The player in the BB was a very decent/competent LAG, that in my opinion, would call with a lighter range than usual because it was really the Cheap Leader with 62 BB.
The same way it called with 99, it could have call me with 22-KK, a bunch of broadways and it wouldn't change so much, I still have 30%
equity, versus anything it has, except AT+ and AA.
Means that I will be taking this pot down 30% of times, which is an awesome number to me. Unfortunately, it wasn't this time, but hey: we cannot be results oriented.
Regards;
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa