How do you play in the bubble? Aggression or caution?

[lapgame]

I'm starting to play more tournaments and I realize that bubble is a very tense phase: some players crash completely, others become super aggressive.

How do you face this moment? Do you prefer to put pressure on medium and small stacks or do you play more at safety to guarantee the ITM (In The Money)?

And when you yourself are the short stack close to the bubble, do you change your strategy or continue playing normally?

I want to learn to better navigate this phase and understand when it's worth taking risks and when it's better to insure.

 

[fundiver199]

As a big stack you try to exploit risk aversion to accumulate chips, but you avoid big confrontations with other mid stacks. As a mid stack you tighthen up, and as a small stack you try to dubble up or sometimes limp into the money and min-cash.

 

[userX]

I'm starting to play more tournaments and I realize that bubble is a very tense phase: some players crash completely, others become super aggressive.

How do you face this moment? Do you prefer to put pressure on medium and small stacks or do you play more at safety to guarantee the ITM (In The Money)?

And when you yourself are the short stack close to the bubble, do you change your strategy or continue playing normally?

I want to learn to better navigate this phase and understand when it's worth taking risks and when it's better to insure.

In general, it all depends on the situation, the size of my stack, my position and my opponents at the table. I play aggressively if my opponents are passive. And vice versa, I play more tightly if my opponents are aggressive.

 

[tagece]

I'm starting to play more tournaments and I realize that bubble is a very tense phase: some players crash completely, others become super aggressive.

How do you face this moment? Do you prefer to put pressure on medium and small stacks or do you play more at safety to guarantee the ITM (In The Money)?

And when you yourself are the short stack close to the bubble, do you change your strategy or continue playing normally?

I want to learn to better navigate this phase and understand when it's worth taking risks and when it's better to insure.

If you have a big stack, you can exploit the short ones. If you are near the last player in the money, it's time to be play only with premium hands. To be the bubble guy after playing for hour is really sad.

 

[Geo90]

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How would you have played here? 1 seat separated me from the pay seat, that's why I was so passive,

Normally, preflop, I'd push back with a 99, or flop a raise and go all in,