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04-23-2018 , 12:24 PM

goldFishshark

grinder

Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 402

This isn't a hand per se, but I'm just wondering if anyone has any tips on playing a relatively short stack when pretty much everyone is short (25bb-5bb).

For example, I was dealt A7o on the BTN w/ 14bb. BB is the chip leader with 35bb, and sb has 15bb. Tournament average is 16bb and there are 30 people left. Is this a jam? Limp (gasp)? Open? Opening and getting jammed on seems a tragedy, and jamming seems bad when in a relative sense, we have a healthy stack.

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04-24-2018 , 02:14 AM

mikeajax15

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Jam

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04-24-2018 , 02:53 AM

oldgoat

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 1,972

in the situation that you give we don't need to be getting too worried about everyone else's stacks - up to the final table we're still basically trying to build a stack capable of getting one of the top few spots - so yes jam

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04-24-2018 , 10:36 PM

goldFishshark

grinder

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Originally Posted by oldgoat

This makes perfect sense, thanks. I still sometimes lose sight of the fact that we need to play to win in spots like these.

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04-24-2018 , 10:50 PM

UntimelyBluff

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Join Date: Dec 2017 Posts: 299

It may take a 'few' tournaments to finally build that stack for the final table, but it will be worth it and you'll give yourself the best chance to win the tournament if you take +EV spots like this. The bigger the stack the bigger the payoff.

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04-24-2018 , 11:27 PM

killer_kill

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