i understand the idea of playing for survival at times, and not playing for coinflips, but that is not this situation. this is the absolute best situation you can be in to gain chips. there is a point in time where you will have to accumulate chips, or you will be gone. doing so with a 4-1 edge is as good as you can get preflop. i know you dont want to bust early, and the fact that you have to move in is something that you want to avoid, but given these odds i think you have to do it.
hellmuth talked about a hand in this yaers tourney where he laid down QQ when he said he put his opponent on 77, and he justified the laydown by saying that the guy could have sucked out on him. i dont think that is a legitimate excuse at all, and there is a difference between playing scared and playing for survival. AK v JJ is a coinflip, overpair v underpair is not.
the fact that you said that you would do this in a small buy in MTT tells you exactly what you should do in thi ssituation. if you are playing and the amount of money you are playing for makes you adjust your strategy, then you shouldnt be playing at that limit/buy-in.
just wondering, if you won the seat in a $40 online satellite, a la moneymaker, would that change your decision?
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