MTT Play

[JPSmiley]

How do you react when you are starting to fall behind the tournament average, and its in mid stages of the tournament? Do you loosen up a little and play more aggressively, or do you tighten up and wait for a monster hand to get back in the game? Later in the tournament it is correct to loosen up a little if u were in this situation right?

[JPSmiley]

for example a 2000 person tourney and lets say theres 800-1000 people left.

[FatRufus]

Personnally i'm waiting for a monster hoping and trying to get the big chip stacks in so i can double up or even better. Playing marginal hands with a low chip stack isn't the best idea. So i wait for a monster and try to induce the bigger stacks

[Talking Poker]

Be patient... just play your game. No need to panic just because you are below the average stack.

If anything though, tighten up - certainly don't loosen up.

[JPSmiley]

okay, like just for example today i was playing a MTT and there were about 800/2500 left and i had 3k in chips, average was around 3500, and i ended up busting out because i played AK too agressively and got caught by a KK. I just find once the blinds hit 75/150 and i only have 3k in chips, any raise of 3 or 4 times the BB is 1/4 of my stack so i feel like i either have to play agressively or not play at all.

[Talking Poker]

Going broke with AK (assuming the money went in preflop) when you have a below average stack and "only" 20 BB, in your example, is nothing to be ashamed of.

At least I don't think so. I didn't see how the hand went down of course - you certainly COULD have overplayed it - but sometimes your run into KK. You can't sit around and wait for Aces all day though. I like to avoid big pots, but sometimes you just need to get your money in.

[jaeh00d]

boom, pretty much what i was gonna say but just worded much better