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[QUOTE="SavagePenguin, post: 820056, member: 22087"]
The latter parts of a tournament are all about M, position, and the action that happened before you.  Oh... and the payoff schedule.

M is basically how many rounds you can survive if you folded every hand.  You add up all the blinds and antes you'd have to pay in a round, and divide your chip stack by that number.

For example if the antes are 1,000 and the blinds are 5,000/10,000 it'll cost you 9k in antes + 15k in blinds to play a round.  That's 23k.
If you have 103,792 in chips that means your M is 4.5.

When your M gets to about 5 or less, you're looking to shove any non-contested pot with any hand that has a decent chance of winning (any pocket pair, A/x, etc.)

But there are other considerations as well.  You have to consider who's left to act and how many chips they have.  And certain hands are more or less playable depending on your M.

[I]Harrington on Hold'em Volume II:  The Endgame[/I] is a great tool for learning about play deep into a tournament.  Of course I highly recommend that you read [I]Volume I [/I]first, as it lays down a foundation that[I] Volume II [/I]builds upon.

I've been told that Buy.com sells the books the cheapest, but Amazon (where I got mine) and Barnes and Noble and all the other big name book stores sell them as well.
Or you can try the local public library.
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