Middle/Small pockets in late tournaments

hamster880

I got near the bubble in the 4000K guarantee tournament, being pretty card dead throughout, picked up ak once and pocket tens once - which i doubled through.

I got knocked out this hand. Should i have shoved here. I was on the button and essentially hoping just to pickup the blinds on a quite aggressive table.

Thinking about maybe i should have done a 3x raise, (maybe i could then have folded to his re-raise - or i might have had to shove anyway - and hoped for a coin flip.). Though I was put off the x3 raise as it would be around a 5th of stack and i was going to get at least some callers - and see a flop which i most likely would hate.


I find this hard, early stages of a tourny you can sit tight and pick off loose players, but in later stages when blinds are big what do you do with marginal hards like middle pockets??? (is it just a shove or fold)



Hand History #368367503 (21:56 04/05/2011)PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalancecorn_rat22Small blind 250.00250.0011541.00shaw07Big blind 500.00750.0039351.00 Your hole cards66   ITCHYBALLSCall 500.001250.0025070.50sarandyFold    hamster880All-in 8640.009890.000.00corn_rat22Fold    shaw07Call 8140.0018030.0031211.00ITCHYBALLSFold    shaw07Show1010   hamster880Show66   Flop  10A2   Turn  7   River  Q   shaw07WinThree 10s18030.00 49241.00

LOL_RAISE

looks fine

mattless

I think you can raise to 1200 and get off to a re-raise here, less than 15 bigs and it is a shove for me.

hamster880

what about a fold???

grantorino

Depends on the table, I prob shove but I certainly dont hate just folding. Stacksize is pretty awkward, in general I prefer 3bet shoving than opening myself with this stacksize

YOUNG_GUN

I dont like the shove we're a bit deep, I dont mind limping behind here to utg limper readless if they havent limped alot, alot of people trap with big pp or AK by limping. I also dont mind re-raise to 1500 and still think we can get away pre