unbe-effin-lieveable grrr....

[Zybomb]

I think one of your problems was you let yourself get too short. 10 BBs is the magic number, anytime you get to that amount or below you need to start pushing with any raise... in position, when its folded around to you, you need to start pushing your stack in on blind steals as well -- if you're called then your called, hopefully you at least have two live cards and are 65/35 or 60/40... if not you pick up the blinds (and antes if its latE) GREAT.

If you start getting down even lower, you need top start gambling and making moves. You have to have a stack where your raise at least represents somewhat of a threat. If the blinds are 100/200 and your stack has dwindled down to 400, your raise isnt gunna scare anyone... in fact from the BB I'll call you with any two cards.

A typical raise in later tournament play is 3x BB (sometimes 4)... which means you are gunna need at least 6xBB to scare someone....any less than 5xBB Im pushing before the blinds get back to me whenever theres an unopened pot and the action is on me... I simply cant allow myself ot get any lower

So I think the main point to take from this is if the blinds are 150, you should never have 300 in your stack (unless you've just lost a huge hand to someones all in which left you with 300 chips. When you reach the 750 mark, its time to start makin moves and before the blinds get back to you

?'s or if u need more explained jus scream at me...

Im just back from a midnight-5 session, im up 440 and Im not tired yet

[Hawt]

If the blinds are 50/150 and he is the chip leader with 5000, 300 more (or 150 more if he was BB) is a cheap price to pay to knock someone out and move up in the payout. Plus he knows that even if you double up you still only have like 4BB 's and will get blinded out or push with a weak hand in the near future. It is a little risk-big reward opportunity, even with 73.