So I played the “Sunday Warmup” on Pokerstars yesterday. $215 buy-in, 4500 entrants, $800,000 prize pool and top 675 get paid. I’ll tell you where I finished later on but there is a hand I’m just not sure about.
At the beginning of the hand, I was in pretty good shape. Average chip count were about 25-30,000 IIRC.
I was in about 80th position out of about 1500 left. Top 675 get paid. If I just hold on to my chips, I could easily coast into the money.
What should my “tournament” thought process in this kind of spot ?!
If all the money goes in preflop (which it probably will if I 3bet), then he’ll have a pocket pair like always and it’ll be a coinflip.
In a cash game, vs a shorty it’s obviously standard to 3bet and call an all-in as this is +EV in cash terms.
My difficulty is knowing when I should be trying to keep hold of chips, and when I should be taking risks to try and accumulate them (at the risk of moving down the leaderboard.)
Let me put my question another way: If we could see villain was holding a medium pocket pair and he open shoves preflop, should we be calling (ie taking a coinflip) or folding and conserving our chips ?
TIA
Poker Stars No Limit Hold’em Tournament – t500.00/t1000.00 Blinds – 9 players – View hand 660323
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (SB): t62633.00 M = 41.76
BB: t24810.00 M = 16.54
UTG: t20161.00 M = 13.44
UTG+1: t79619.00 M = 53.08
UTG+2: t33045.00 M = 22.03
MP1: t27128.00 M = 18.09
MP2: t25879.00 M = 17.25
CO: t22611.00 M = 15.07
BTN: t9600.00 M = 6.40
Pre Flop: (t1500) Hero is SB with A 
K 
4 folds, MP2 raises to t2275, 2 folds, Hero ??
