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March 24, 2007, 12PM: Played 7 hours, 24 minutes at Club Moderne - Anaconda
$100 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (1st out of 40 Players)

Picked off another toruny.  Think this is were Im going to start focusing, even though there are not that may tournys around the state.  Play was very week.  This helped me to gain back chips after taking one of my 8 bad beats for the tourny.  Actually issued a bad-beat, making a wierd call.
 
One question I have for all you tournament players.  When it was 3 handed - I doubled up giving me 88K in chips.  The other two players in the tourny both have 10K each.  Blinds are 3K-6K.  Do you just muck giving the blinds a pass waiting for them to take out each other to move up a place and then take on the last guy with a dominate chip stack? Or do you go for the Juggular.
 
I went for the Juggular and ended up doubling up both players 2 hands in a row.  And then peeling some chips back to each of them after they doubled up.
 
Thinking about this, helped make my decision later in the tourny.  Blinds are now 4-8K and I have about 1/2 the total chips in play.  I limp on the button, SB goes all in, BB calls, so I muck.  I would have ended up winning the tourny outright right there if I call, but I figure I can muck and then split 1st/2nd with the winner of the hand, since they both had exactly the same amount of chips.  Even though the winner of the hand would have me outchipped by a little but basically even stacked.
 
I made the offer to the winner of the hand, and he accepted.  Splitting 1st and 2nd.

Last Update: March 24, 2007, 9:33PM

2 Comments

March 27, 2007, 9:23PM Posted by hawks45	Big D is right...it all depends.  Not only on the players left but on you.  If it was me, I would have cautiously went for the juggular.  Pick you spots to take their chips.  As far as the last hand, what did you have to lay down? Maybe you should have called it.  People can only give suggestions, you were there so only you know what to do.
March 25, 2007, 12:33AM Posted by dnshy	dude...I think like most poker related questions the answer is it depends. If the payoff is a great deal more for moving up a spot (probably not the case here) then you might sit back and make sure you move up the ladder.  I don't think there are defined cut and dry rules for this situation.  You also have to look at the players remaining.  Maybe one is solid and you don't want him to be heads up against you even if you have a big chip lead so maybe you gamble to try and end it.  Obviously whatever you are doing tourny wise right now is working just fine so keep it up...good job again!

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