Sit and Suffer???

[mowgli77]

I'm off to my local Gala Casino tomorrow night to play in a £20 Freeze Out and I'm looking for some advice. It's an MTT with £300 added by Gala and will probably be 50+ players. I went down there Sunday and played in a £10 Freeze Out and got absolutely no cards at all, kept getting 7-3, 6-4, 4-2 etc, didn't have a card higher than a 10 for about 15 hands and every time I got anything like a King it was accompanied with a 2 or 3. One of the only hands I could have won a hand with was 7-3 offsuit but there was a pot raise and a call pre flop so I folded what I thought was an awful hand. The 2 hands were AJ V J3 with a Jack and a 7 on the flop and another 7 on the turn. I'd have won with three 7's but obviously didn't call. I was slowly getting blinded out until I got raised on my big blind by one person, blinds were 300/600 and I only had about 3000 chips left, I pushed my chips in with 8-10 and came up against Q-K, no-one hit and he had highest cards and knocked me out. Question is if I get no cards at all again tomorrow, what tactics, if any can I adopt to prevent me just getting blinded out again. It was pot limit other day so I couldn't just push all-in with any 2 cards either. Not sure if it's pot limit or no limit tomorrow. Do I have to just be patient, sit and suffer or should I be raising in late position etc? Also should I be trying to limp in early doors with only half decent hands while the blinds are low? I know you guys are more experienced at stuff like this so any advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance. :ok

[daftpegasus]

Re: Sit and Suffer??? I think if you get no cards at all then you have to use your 'tight' image to make some raises in position. Those could either be in late position to steal the blinds, or even post flop. If you've folded every hand and then suddenly raise people will give you credit for a decent hand and respect that. You can also try to limp into pots where it looks like you're unlikely to get any preflop raises early on but I admit I wouldn't do this too often - I'd rather create a tight image by folding personally. Good luck tomorrow - the chances are you won't get such poor cards again.