Jaming in the small blind

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Hey got into the money in two tornaments out of three at the local casino during the western classics main event week. Coming 4 th in one and 3rd in another. But must admit that short handed late in torney is not my strong point, so would apreciate some help on how to play here.
Blinds 800/1600 In one of the torneys I became a massive chip leader when 6 oponents were left. I had about 200k second chip leader had about 100k and couple of short stacks at about 20k and a couple mid stacks at about 50k.
table dynamics was a mixture of tight and loose players with most somwhere in between.
My strategy was to open up my range towards the loose players , for instance the two players to my right were really loose showing down some crap which they kept raising my blinds preety much everytime. So I started defending my blinds with shit like 57s, 10J, Ax ,Kx, etc . I even called a 50k shove from the bb with A10o as I knew this guy (sb) had a realy weak range and I expected to be ahead most of the time. So shore enough he turns over 9 4o and hits a 4 on the river to take down the pot. The thing was that they were raising with shit I was defending with shit but they always had position, when I 3bet they would call. One had a mid stack the other had the 100k stack.
So question number one is - should I have not opened up so much and protected my stack.
So later on I got down to 3 players with relative stacks of 150k maybe 20k between chip leader and short stack. With the agressive players gone I was left with a tight player to my left and a semi agressive player to my right.
After passing chips back and forward for about 20min i get down to about 90k and blinds going up soon i decided that Im going to go for 1st place witch ofered 7k prize money and a trophy which was worth more than the money to me. 4K for second 3k third.
The blind at that point were 2000/4000
One of the guys mentioned a deal but I didnt see the point as there was 14k in the pool and we would get 4.5k each witch is not much difference as getting 3rd or second.
Ok so with the tight player to my left , I remembered a video I saw on drag the bar , where the sb was jaming on the bb almost everytime when folded around to with almost any two cards. I also remeber Baudib1 saying something like this on here once.
Actually in the video the sb was jamming on the bb , but there was 5 players left and she had a mid stack , jamming on another mid stack.
So I decided to start jamming on the tight player with Qx, Kx, Ax, 10.J+, 89s sort of hands , 3rd hand into the strategy I jam with K10o sb wakes up with Ak and im out of there.
Any thoughts on this apreciated , thanks
 
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probably too tight, add Jx/Tx stuff. If BB is really tight ATC.
 
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With over a 100bbs left why start chiping away. I would have waited till some of the small stacks get eaten up by the blinds. A10 call was a border line call but ok imo. Rather then defending your blinds, you should attack their blinds, you can afford it. There calling range is probably a whole lot tighter then their shoving range.
 
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probably too tight, add Jx/Tx stuff. If BB is really tight ATC.
Probably alot of truth in this strategy but Im still not shore if I got the balls to shove over 20bb with 10 2, with relative stacks.
 
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With over a 100bbs left why start chiping away. I would have waited till some of the small stacks get eaten up by the blinds. A10 call was a border line call but ok imo. Rather then defending your blinds, you should attack their blinds, you can afford it. There calling range is probably a whole lot tighter then their shoving range.

My thoughts precisely. Your reaction to losing $ to the agro's to your right should be to take advantage of the tight asses to your left, just like you were being "positionally" taken advantage of. I'm cool with the A10 call as well, but calling is a much harder decision to make, than the shove.
 
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It kind of depends on what the BB's mindset is. If it's someone who is sorta experienced but not a shark, she probably wants to play well and not be a donkey for calling off with K9o or something so she'll fold a lot of good hands even if she knows what you're doing.

If it's someone who wants to just gamble they could call off with T9s or something because it's their favorite hand.

If BB is pretty passive you can limp sometimes and just donk the flop.
 
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It kind of depends on what the BB's mindset is. If it's someone who is sorta experienced but not a shark, she probably wants to play well and not be a donkey for calling off with K9o or something so she'll fold a lot of good hands even if she knows what you're doing.

If it's someone who wants to just gamble they could call off with T9s or something because it's their favorite hand.

If BB is pretty passive you can limp sometimes and just donk the flop.
It kind of depends on what the BB's mindset is. If it's someone who is sorta experienced but not a shark, she probably wants to play well and not be a donkey for calling off with K9o or something so she'll fold a lot of good hands even if she knows what you're doing.

If it's someone who wants to just gamble they could call off with T9s or something because it's their favorite hand.
If BB is pretty passive you can limp sometimes and just donk the flop.
This sounds very reasonable to me, people call for all sorts of reasons, like you said because its their favourite hand, or because there feeling lucky , last nite for instace I was experimenting with the play at a local pub where I play the same people every monday, I jamed on one of the tighter players (bb) from the small blinds. The blinds were 500/1000 and i jammed about 12k the bb had about 9k , average was about 7k, so every one is short stacked. This guy calls with KQo and im siting there with Q4. When I asked why would you risk your tornament life with an average hand , he said that if I had a good hand id raise or call but would never go all in. Imo this play should be reserved only for the rocks , or when we are short stacked compared to the other players but still have enough chips to put at least a medium size dent in the bb stack, or when the blinds are huge compared to the relative stacks.
 
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KQ is pretty much a snap-call there, he just ended up with a top 10% hand, which happens sometimes.
 
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