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Message: [QUOTE="diabloblanco, post: 341288, member: 4734"] When others are tightening their game toward the bubble or near the end of a tourney, it is in your best interest to begin to loosen up a little and do some pot and blind stealing to pad your stack. You have to build your chips up during some point of a tournament and it should be done with as minimal risk to your tournament life as possible. Doing pot stealing/blind stealing doesn't risk your life like an all-in double-up attempt, but a few of these are just as good as doubling up. In a tournamnet you can look at it not in number of players, but from the perspective of you only playing the players at your table at any one time. You've only got to worry about the people at your table and how you can maximize your gains and minimize your losses against these players. During the tournament there are always times when you can pick up pots, steal blinds and play hands that win pots without risking your tournament life. If you identify correctly these opportunities and capitalize on most or all of them, you will put yourself in a position to minimize the number of times you must win a race to stay alive. Not to say that it [b]wont[/b] happen, because you will invariably have to be all-in with even odds or a slight favorite, maybe even a slight dog, at some point during a tournament and you will have to obviously win this race. But you can minimize the need to do this to stay in the game by capitalizing on as many of these opportunities to take the money that other people aren't willing to go in and get and stealing peoples blinds as often as possible when play is tight. [/QUOTE]

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