i'm quite new player .. and i played and still playing on lower stakes (i play only multi-table tourneys, S&Gs and hups-tourneys - i avoid NL cash games)
and i really think that i could do better on higher stakes..i really don't like to move preflop, for ex..and in cheap buy-in tourneys in earlier stages there are always 2-3 players who will move preflop with anything..
if i'm dealt AKs in middle position and make a standard raise, in bad tourney someone from late position with similar stack than mine will move with hands like 66 .. and what to do in that case? i have 50% of chances to risk all my chips in tourney if i call him.. i will always move with decent hand if i'm short staked (i can't let someone to see the flop with my 10 10 if i have chips left for 2-3BBs).. the ALL-in tactic is more frequently in bubble time, when there are 2-3 people left to go for the money, so short-stacked people are moving with everything trying to steal the blinds.. i don't have a solution for this kind of play, many times i lost ALL-ins when i put a player on ACE-something with AK against hands like A8 or K10 .. i don't want to risk big ammount of chips preflop, but sometimes you can't fold premium hand, and sometimes you'll be bad beated, and this is really frustrating.  |