i am currently reading HoH vol 2 and have a question about whether some of his theories about inflection points can be applied to pot limit tournies;
harrington seems to state that if you are short stacked in an NL tourny (lets say harringtons orange zone of 6-10x the pot) you should be looking for oprtunities to be the first player into the pot and when this opportunity presents itself you should move all in with a fairly wide range of holdings. you now have 3 ways to win, 1, all opponents fold, you are called and are favorite and win, you are called are an underdog and win.
lets say i have 9bbs in MP and hold ATs, all fold to me and i move all in, however if i am playing in a pot limit event i do not have the option of going all in. how would it be best to approach this situation?
in a recent PL tourny i had around T1500 in EP with blinds of 100/200, i was UTG with AQo and was unsure about how to handle the situation. do i raise the max then reraise all in? look to limp-reraise/limp call all of my chips etc?
EDIT, in the AQ hand i am new to the table so have no reads on other players.
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07-17-2005 #1
short stacked pot limit tourny play
Last edited by Bobby; 07-17-2005 at 12:09 PM.
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07-17-2005 #2PokerForums God
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Good question, I have wondered about his too.
Stephen Terry posted short stack PLH hand on PokeryPAgEs. He made a full pot bet UTG with KJ.
I think I would want to put in more of a 2.5-3xBB raise, rather than a full pot which is usually 5bb or so.
I don't want to limp especially not with a hand as good as AQ, because I don't want others in the pot.
Good questions. I have only played a couple of PL MTTs, monied in two of them but they were forum freerolls. Infact, I made the final 5 in one.
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07-17-2005 #3
btw i was looking to double up, and was prepared to take a 50/50, i dont know if that was correct thinking or not tho.
i'll search pokerpages
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07-18-2005 #4
ive been thinking about this a little more;
late into a tourny e.g. final table i do not feel that the problem is as big as stack sizes are smaller compared to initial pot size. so a raise means more to the other players.
if you get short stacked early and want to rebuild i think there is more of a problem as others have bigger stacks compared to the initial pot size. i find this situation especially difficult!
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