Well, I thought again and realizing now, that I just mixed up cash and tournament strategies really badly.
I was thinking that the chip leader doesn't need to rely on risk anymore and can just wait for a monster hand. Slow down, fold earlier would help me extend the time I can afford waiting...
If I would playing cash game! Where your stack won't dries up by itself, relative to blinds, and effective stack is always ready to pay off my long run for a monster hand. That so wrong to play like this in tournaments, that even sitting out a whole game would be better.
Can't believe I was so dumb :rofl:
Thx for replies guys.
First of all dont feel dumb. The forum is there for asking questions like this and to learn and improve
That being said the way, you describe playing, it seems like, you have subconsciously set your goal as surviving as long as possible in the tournament. But this is a false achievement, unless you are playing purely for fun and dont care about profit. If for instance it takes 3 hours to get in the money, it makes no difference, if you bust out after 5 minutes or after 2 hours and 55 minutes. In fact the early bust-out is better, because then you have time to play another tournament, where maybe you are going to cash.
The situation, you describe, with getting an early dubble up, require very few if any adjustments. You now have 200BB, but most of your opponents still have 100BB, so you are still just playing 100BB poker. The early phase of a tournament actually is very much like a cash game, and as in cash games you are not looking to stack off a lot of hands for 100BB. You are looking to play mostly small to medium sized pots and hopefully slowly increase your stack further.