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Tourney questions

Mr_PieMr_Pie Member Posts: 4
edited May 2013 in The Poker Clinic
Hi all, am currently in Vegas playing live for the first time -absolutely loving it.

Anyway onto the question. This was a tourney where no more rebuys were allowed, 14 players left of 17 and 93,500 chips in play. 6 players at my table (8 on the other). I had about 9,700 chips the other player covered me by 100 chips. The blinds were at 200/400 and shortly to go to 300/600, level after that was 500/1000. 20 minute levels, so I feel that very soon many people willbe playing short stacked.

My question is in two parts;

1. Should I be playing really aggressively and quite loose at this stage to try to build a stack as the blinds are very shortly going to cause a lot of people trouble-they are sitting there with roughly 6,000 in chips, or can I afford to sit and wait for the better hands whilst watching the inevitable all-in fest that will shortly take place? The other players are all playing pretty tight. Any ideas?

2. There is a raise to 800 in early position from someone who has been fairly tight and it comes to me in the dealer position with JJ. What should I do?

Thanks for reading guys and any suggestions welcomed, especially question 1 as I am planning on playing the same tourney again later today!
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  • gazza127gazza127 Member Posts: 2,156
    edited May 2013
    I wouldn't say necessarily go really loose.  If you have a larger stack you can start putting pressure on smaller stacks for sure but only with position and drawable cards.

    You haven't reached a time where shoving is necessary or healthy when you're risking youre tournament life..

    If I were playing that JJ hand id be reraising on the button to about 2k with the look to getting it in.  If he shoves back, I call and sigh if he has AA, KK or QQ... happy to see AK for a race.  But i guess thats just me.

    If he flat calls... see what the flop brings and reassess.

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  • Mr_PieMr_Pie Member Posts: 4
    edited May 2013
    In Response to Re: Tourney questions:
    Thanks Gazzaa, I actually shoved to the raise of 800, I figured if I re-raised it would be quite a lot of my stack, plus if they shoved on me I would have decide whether to call, rather than putting them to the decision. 

    They called, showed AA and that was my tourney over.

    Still not sure whether what I did was the right play!
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