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Originally Posted by carolinabay
ICM considerations are real when you are at that point in a tournament. Then you have cases in satellite tournaments where tanking/stalling and folding AA pre-flop are the correct plays. We all hate tanking, but what if that helps you ladder up? The Dara O'Kearney book on satellites was an eye opener for me. K7 on a short stack in LP I probably would have shoved, but not if there was a raise before my turn.
I know the way I typed the post was confusing, but he had KT, not K7. Only 2-3 people behind him IIRC, so maybe he was actually the BTN.
It was super nitty. Arieh on commentary cited it as a clear mistake.
I know ICM is a real concept and it's easy for me to tell other people how to play when I'm not the one fighting for life-changing money, but it does seem very exploitable when some of these stacks are just waiting around for other people to bust.