FT of MTT's Short Stacked

ucntcme

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So its happened to all of us I am sure. You have played this tourny for over 5 hours now and you have made it to a seat at the FT. Only problem is you are short stack with 10BB and leader sits at a cool 100BB. Is this 100% an Shove/Fold situation.?? Also, all other player (other than Chip Leader) have 3x your stack. Happened to me just last night.. I kept contemplating whether or not this was in fact a shove fold play atleast until stack is tripled? What do you do in these cases? how do you play your overcard hands and pocket pairs (low) Also note, that in my case last evening, I was sitting directly across table from Big Stack. SOO what are your thoughts??
 
dagG1

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It's 2 hard to tell you - everyone choose their type of game - someone may put all in on A5 44 33 etc.
someone try to seat for really monster hand.....
how many people - so many desicions
 
tARsh

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Depends for me a lot on the payout tiers and other relative short stacks at the table as well as blind/ante structure.
I mean you can be shortest stack in some MTTs @ FT and still be fairly deep then it's not a concern of course.
I personally play almost exclusively FTW no matter the FT and will take any and every perceived edge there is unless its a pretty big buyin and moving up is hundreds or thousands of dollars then I will be more careful with my spots.

With 10 BBs you still have plenty of time to wait and pick good spots as well as make a 3 bet and potentially have fold equity still so it's not in the super danger zone; you still can play poker.
 
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when you are that deep in a tourney, the combined blinds and antes are typically eating away hard at your stack. With only 10BB you basically have to get all in with the first good hand you see (you've got a bit of time to get something decent but not much), becaause if you wait too long then you will likely be forced to get it in with something much worse where even with a double-up now it still leaves you very short.
 
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You need to consider all the variables such as the structure of the tournament (normal, deep stack, turbo, hyper turbo) How are players at the table ... will they pay you with either hand? If players are more tights you will be left with only the blinds? and your position?

Are several variable to be considered and in addition you need to know if your intention is just to steal blinds to breathe or try to double in a heads up
 
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