gambling at certain stages

[rosco]

Ok wanted a few opinions here and if they follow this, maybe is part thier basic strategy, well its something that as come up in the last few tournaments I have played. It happens midway through tournaments and I am sat with average stack, when there is an all in and only me left to act and it will costs between 30-50% of my stack. oh and your prity sure it 50/50. I prefer to be the aggressor but this is purely calling. the two examples are; 1) apat 125/200 players left an early position who I have taken a number of chips off previous and is loose. I have 10/10 in the bb. I was sure this was 50/50 and put on a big ace. I thought about it at the time and realised I really need to gamble at some stage to get anwhere in this tournament. it was for 40% of my stack. I called and my 10s held up against his ak. I then had a stack to bully the table and to gain a large stack. 2) the second is a classic move by a relatively short stack poker player. 9 handed I have about 16k average is 12k. 5 limpers bb goes all in for 5k. I am sat with pocket 7s. everyone else folds. I know this player and he is a good player and is making a move to virtually double his stack. again 50/50. i call and he turns over qk. and my 7s hold up and I increase my stack. I then play like a donk and loose it all. but other thoughts on this, I know tight players would fold, but its about gamling at mid stages.

[SteveO]

Re: gambling at certain stages The conundrum with pairs is are you up against overcards or overpairs. The lower the pair the less likely you are to be in good shape, and that's all there is to it really.