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Message: [QUOTE="Bentheman87, post: 665773, member: 25761"] "Why not figure out an adjustment to your game/strategy that will keep you out of this zone so you don't have to race? Obvioulsy that's beyond the scope of this (any?) thread, but if you find a way to avoid putting yourself in an all-in preflop situation then you wont have to get (un)lucky." Well, take a big 900 person MTT for example. When I play these, I almost ALWAYS can make it to at least the final 200 players. It always amazes me how fast the field thins. I mean, I could probably just fold my way to the final 300 players without ever playing a hand. By the time half the field is eliminated my M is still over 20. But usually I do play fairly aggressive throughout the entire tournament, but even if I have a big stack by the time it gets close to the money I'm still not in a super comfortable position. I could be ranked like 50 out of 150 players but still be under big pressure from the blinds with an M of between 5 and 10. So at this point you've got to gamble, you just don't have a choice. If you gamble with an M of 6 and double up you're at an M of about 12. If you don't gamble and don't put all your chips in the middle for a coinflip, then you will get blinded away or won't AA or KK until your M is less than 5. Then a double up would still leave u at an M of less than 10, so it's much better to gamble a bit earlier. That's why I'm always willing to go all in for a coinflip while I'm in the orange zone or low in the yellow zone. You guys seriously should have seen how I was running in the fifty fifty last night. If all my hands held up, I honestly think I would have placed first second or third in the entire tournament. I did get lucky one time with KK vs AA all in on the flop. It came runner runner to give me a flush. Besides that though, I lost nearly all my stack with the best hands. JJ vs 99 lost most of my stack. Then KK vs Ace 10, lost the rest of my stack and got knocked out that hand. [/QUOTE]

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