Pacificpocker.com – Getting Aggressive With Your Play Due to Necessity
Posted on December 25, 2008
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www.pacificpocker.com – This is something I felt compelled to do in my most recent tournament, and I would like to think it was more through design than frustration at not making much headway with my chipstack.
I had spent an hour and a half hovering around the amount of chips I had started with, and as the blinds stepped up another level, I decided to get busy. As a concious decision with logic behind it, I wouldn’t say that this was rash or careless of me, but I did end up getting involved with some hands that weren’t exactly premium. First of all I raised in fairly late position with (Q,J) and a small stack moved all in with (7,7). I had called because it didn’t cost me all that many more in chips, and I caught a Jack on the turn to win.
After picking up some more blinds I moved up to 9,000 in chips from what was 6,000. Unfortunately my loose aggressive play caught up with me when I raised preflop again in later posotion, this time with (A,9) suited. I got called and subsequently beaten by (A,Q), but I stand by my decision to start playing that way.
I think sometimes you can be too cautious for too long and before you know it the blinds are eating your stack. If you pick a time to step things up you undoubtedly risk confrontation with other players when you may not have the best of it preflop. Despite this, when you need to pick up chips, it is better to invite that confrontation from one player, rather than get so short you get called by several.
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