roundcat
Creature of leisure
Silver Level
This seems to me to come down to a question of tournament survival vs. chip accumulation, and how much risk you're willing to take.
Here's the scenario:
You're playing a two-table tournament and are almost down to one table. Your chip stack is short, but not desperately so. Let's say you have 20 times the big blind. Only four players will be paid so you're not close to the money yet.
You limp in with A9 suited from early position. (You might typically either raise or fold here, but for the purposes of this scenario let's say you limped.) The small blind completes and the big blind checks, so there are three of you in the pot.
The flop comes T,7,6 rainbow, giving you a gutshot straight draw and an overcard. The small blind, who is desperately short-stacked, shrugs her shoulders and pushes all in. The big blind folds. To call, it will cost you nearly half your remaining stack. You assume the small blind doesn't have more than a pair, which leaves you with 7 outs, so the odds of making a better hand by the river are 2.59 to 1. The pot is offering you about 3 to 1.
Do you take the slightly favorable pot odds in order to try and accumulate more chips but risk becoming extremely short, or do you fold and wait for a better spot in order to preserve the chips you already have?
Here's the scenario:
You're playing a two-table tournament and are almost down to one table. Your chip stack is short, but not desperately so. Let's say you have 20 times the big blind. Only four players will be paid so you're not close to the money yet.
You limp in with A9 suited from early position. (You might typically either raise or fold here, but for the purposes of this scenario let's say you limped.) The small blind completes and the big blind checks, so there are three of you in the pot.
The flop comes T,7,6 rainbow, giving you a gutshot straight draw and an overcard. The small blind, who is desperately short-stacked, shrugs her shoulders and pushes all in. The big blind folds. To call, it will cost you nearly half your remaining stack. You assume the small blind doesn't have more than a pair, which leaves you with 7 outs, so the odds of making a better hand by the river are 2.59 to 1. The pot is offering you about 3 to 1.
Do you take the slightly favorable pot odds in order to try and accumulate more chips but risk becoming extremely short, or do you fold and wait for a better spot in order to preserve the chips you already have?
