guccipix
Rock Star
Silver Level
When you’ve got like 10BB or less and you’re hanging on for dear life, what do you tend to do?
Two main strategies are waiting around for a great hand/opportunity, or just go all in when you’re getting the odds for a triple or quadruple up (or more).
As a huge nit, I tend to prefer the former, but I was short stacked yesterday and decided on a strategy I’d use to try to save myself. I folded and folded until I met two criteria:
1. I was in good position.
2. No one called or raised before me.
Yeah, I’m not giving myself much of an opportunity for a big gain, but this way I’d survive for a while as opposed to getting it in and losing with my first decent hand.
I ended up going 1 for 2. First time I shoved without checking my cards (had 10-8) from around the hijack and got up from 1.8k to 7.8k. Second time I shoved without looking again and everyone folded except the big blind. He turns over AQ, I turn over KQ.
I like this strategy though and think it’s a good way to avoid getting it in against monster hands.
What do you tend to do?
Two main strategies are waiting around for a great hand/opportunity, or just go all in when you’re getting the odds for a triple or quadruple up (or more).
As a huge nit, I tend to prefer the former, but I was short stacked yesterday and decided on a strategy I’d use to try to save myself. I folded and folded until I met two criteria:
1. I was in good position.
2. No one called or raised before me.
Yeah, I’m not giving myself much of an opportunity for a big gain, but this way I’d survive for a while as opposed to getting it in and losing with my first decent hand.
I ended up going 1 for 2. First time I shoved without checking my cards (had 10-8) from around the hijack and got up from 1.8k to 7.8k. Second time I shoved without looking again and everyone folded except the big blind. He turns over AQ, I turn over KQ.
I like this strategy though and think it’s a good way to avoid getting it in against monster hands.
What do you tend to do?