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Rock Star
Silver Level
So last night I made my first ever final table in a .50 + .05 MTT (I’ve been strictly a cash player up until now). The payouts were something like .88, 1.10, 1.60, etc to 4.32, and finally 6.50. When we got to the final table, I had around 75,000 chips out of 1.3 million. There were five players under 100k chips, including two under 30k.
My question is this - I didn’t catch anything decent for seven or so hands, during which time one of the small stacks shoved and was knocked out. Then I got KJs from midposition, shoved, and was called by QQ by the button. I realize this is kind of a bad beat, but I’m curious if it would’ve been smarter to fold that and strictly try to increase my payout. On the next hand, two people shoved and were both knocked out.
I spent a lot of time researching MTTs before playing, and I kept hearing “try to win, don’t try to get in the money.” So this move made sense to me. But I was also massively far behind the chip leader (~400k) and a few people were about to blind out (7500/15000 with 1000 ante).
If anyone can break this down in ICM for me, I’d appreciate it as I don’t have a great understanding of this concept yet.
My question is this - I didn’t catch anything decent for seven or so hands, during which time one of the small stacks shoved and was knocked out. Then I got KJs from midposition, shoved, and was called by QQ by the button. I realize this is kind of a bad beat, but I’m curious if it would’ve been smarter to fold that and strictly try to increase my payout. On the next hand, two people shoved and were both knocked out.
I spent a lot of time researching MTTs before playing, and I kept hearing “try to win, don’t try to get in the money.” So this move made sense to me. But I was also massively far behind the chip leader (~400k) and a few people were about to blind out (7500/15000 with 1000 ante).
If anyone can break this down in ICM for me, I’d appreciate it as I don’t have a great understanding of this concept yet.