Betting when you are down |
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Posted Sun May 23, 2004 5:50 pm GMT by Ccodyman
I was in a tournament and I made it through the first table of 6 people and the top 2 went on. I was the person with the lesser amout of chips from my table(65/35). When I got to the next round I was the person with the least amout of chips since the person from my table had the larger half and the other two people who came in had split pretty even(50/50-53/47).
Me 35
P1 65
P2 50-53
P3 47-50
I went out pretty quick since they just took advantage of my lower amout of chips.
Any advice on how to bet when you enter the table down?
Thanks
Cody
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Posted Sun May 23, 2004 9:21 pm GMT by Blarg
I couldn't give you any expert tips because I'm not that experienced with tournaments, but it does seem important to me that you try to steal a blind or two if you can when you're low, and be willing to abandon hands that aren't winners quickly. When you're short-stacked. one bad hand can really wipe you out.
Try to find a good spot to play hard with good cards, before the antes slowly cut you to ribbons. You'll probably have to make that decision sooner or later if you get really low in chips, so sometimes something like an Ace Jack offsuit is probably worth pushing harder than you normally would. You might not see anything that good for the next 20 minutes, and the antes would have killed you by then anyway, forcing you to go in with something really lame in comparison. You might as well go in with something as with nothing.
Also, keep watching how the whole tournament is going. Sometimes you might find you're almost in the money, and if you can just hang in a little longer, not betting at all, you can wind up in the money while other people on other tables are busting out before you. Even if you can't win a tourney, getting 10th or 20th place money sure beats getting nothing at all.
So...steal antes when you can, choose carefully what may not be a really good opportunity but for you is your BEST opportunity, and keep an eye on the whole tournament's standings so that if you're almost in the money, you don't pull a move that pushes you out of the money.
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