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card dead???
after quite a few big cashes in tourneys on sky my run for the moment has come to an end!!! im still running deep in quite a few but my biggest problem is what to do when u get card dead and u only have a medium stack!!! i try to keep tite and wait for a big hand but lately they havent been coming and eventually im left with about 6 - 10 big blinds and ive had to shove with a rag ace or a small pair!!!
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I.E. people are quite tight towards the end and don't wanna be taking unnecessary risks so a min-raise is often enough to take the blinds if you're on the button or one before it (the cut off), which pays your blinds for that orbit. Keep your head above water and hopefully you can do that til you find a good spot to double up.
If you're lucky, you will have zilch early on then run into big pairs when you get to the FT.
Or..you could have all the big pairs early on, then just fade into oblivion mid-game.
MTTs are all about timing. And a big portion of timing is luck!
It is better to make a move with 20BBs and get knocked out that it is just just let the blinds pass through you for an hour and then shove 9BBs with ATo into AK.
Have a look through your hand histories for hands where you have won without a show down. Suppose you have AK and you flopped TPTK but your opponent folded to your flop bet, then try to work out why they folded. Then when you are facing the same type of player in the same type of situation try to make them fold even when you have air.
late in MTTs your cards are less important than situations
Too many players think o no I have xbb I must start shoving.
Essentially you need to maintain a stack that has leverage against the other stacks. If this mean shoving unopened spots with ATC then so be it, all about ensuring you do not fall below a point where you have no fold equity.
Having no FE with a short stack is a cardinal sin in MTT play.
If you find yourself card dead then just pick your spots to shove your stack.
In general on Sky if your sitting on 10-12bb then put your stack to work.
Keep an eye on the other stacks, more important than how many bb you have.
If you have 20bb and the other stacks have 80bb then your short, all relative.
Get it in the middle as often as possible, don’t worry about what cards you have just shove good unopened spots.
Even if you ran your 84 into AK, your not In that bad shape.
Your running very well by the looks of it )
And also have any chance of getting a shove steal through ?