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lost2qandisa
Rock Star
Silver Level
Here is my problem..... I can usually make it to mid to late stage in tournaments. An example of a $2 buy in tournament I was playing yesterday on Brovada:
I was sitting comfortably in 1st with 18 players remaining. Bubble was long gone because it was at 54. I had 175K chips and next closest player was at 145K. Everything I have read says pick on the small stacks and try and chip up some more. So, I would call a 30K all in with 10 8 suited. J 10 suited I would play. I opened my range up. I was doing ok and would win one lose one. With 10 players left, I had 138K in third spot. I was holding QQ. Short stack with 42K shoves into my BB. I called it. He flips AK suited to my QQ and turns a K. I made it to the final table and busted 9th to a 83 to my QJ. We both had about same amount of chips.
So my question: Do you get really aggressive at that point or should I have coasted to a much better spot? I cashed $13. The next step was $21 and they went up to $187. I kind of felt robbed after playing for hours and being in such a good spot. How do you play that situation? Do you just get real tight and make spots? Or get aggressive and risk doing what I did and lose position?
I was sitting comfortably in 1st with 18 players remaining. Bubble was long gone because it was at 54. I had 175K chips and next closest player was at 145K. Everything I have read says pick on the small stacks and try and chip up some more. So, I would call a 30K all in with 10 8 suited. J 10 suited I would play. I opened my range up. I was doing ok and would win one lose one. With 10 players left, I had 138K in third spot. I was holding QQ. Short stack with 42K shoves into my BB. I called it. He flips AK suited to my QQ and turns a K. I made it to the final table and busted 9th to a 83 to my QJ. We both had about same amount of chips.
So my question: Do you get really aggressive at that point or should I have coasted to a much better spot? I cashed $13. The next step was $21 and they went up to $187. I kind of felt robbed after playing for hours and being in such a good spot. How do you play that situation? Do you just get real tight and make spots? Or get aggressive and risk doing what I did and lose position?