Adapting to friendly live game?

jugglegeek

I've been playing poker since January this year now and I've discovered that once you have fewer than 10 big blinds in a tournament there are only two decisions left: all-in pre-flop or fold pre-flop. When I play on-line I have certain hands that if I get and are below 10 bigs then I just ship (depending on the action infront of course)

But the regular live game I play at players will often play right down to the felt. It is not uncommon for the big blind to fold to a raise with less than four bigs behind.

last night I ended up in this situation with less than 10 bigs left so I kept shoving hoping to double up and stealing the blinds instead. It got to the point where we were eight handed, I had 10 big blinds and there were at least four with fewer chips than me.

Is this still the right stratergy to win or should I be holding out till I have say five big blinds left? Or should I play even looser and shove with any two cards knowing that the short stacks will most likely fold without a premium hand. If they are only going to call with pocket pairs or high suited aces then I am almost certainly behind if they call no mater what I have right?

Last night I survived an hour and came fourth playing only two moves: fold pre-flop or all-in pre-flop. Should I change my game?

Dudeskin8

Play exactly the same, my strategy for late MTT play is punish weak passive players by raising/shoving at every opportunity. In terms of 10 BB's I would never advise willingly going lower than this if you don't need to, if they want to bleed them selves by goin to 5 let them.

One thing I might be careful of though is when they get super low to less than 5 as now they probably have to call with a massive % of thier range meaning it will be hard to make them fold and could also double them up which you don't want to do.