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Strategy for 3 left and top two places pay the same

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  1. Bullajami Bullajami is offline

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    Jan 24th, 2010 (1/24/2010 7:45pm)

    Last night I was in a local live turbo MTT that awarded identical prizes to the top two finishers. When it was just 3 of us left I was the middle stack with an M of 15-ish. Big stack was a decent player with about twice my stack. Short stack, with an M of 7 or so, was by far the weakest player remaining.

    Would the strategy in this situation be to avoid tangling with the big stack and focus on running the small stack out, or do you try to grab chips in whatever circumstance presents itself?
  2. mdshack14 mdshack14 is offline

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    Jan 24th, 2010 (1/24/2010 7:53pm) in reply to Bullajami

     
    Originally Posted by Bullajami View Post


    Last night I was in a local live turbo MTT that awarded identical prizes to the top two finishers. When it was just 3 of us left I was the middle stack with an M of 15-ish. Big stack was a decent player with about twice my stack. Short stack, with an M of 7 or so, was by far the weakest player remaining.

    Would the strategy in this situation be to avoid tangling with the big stack and focus on running the small stack out, or do you try to grab chips in whatever circumstance presents itself?

    No reason at all to mess with the only stack that can bust you in this format. I'm hoping that this was a satty that only paid two seats.
     
  3. Faded TV Faded TV is offline

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    Jan 24th, 2010 (1/24/2010 8:13pm) in reply to Bullajami

    Standard satty play just let the third place guy go busto. No reason for risk without reward.
  4. Bullajami Bullajami is offline

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    Jan 24th, 2010 (1/24/2010 10:01pm) in reply to mdshack14

     
    Originally Posted by mdshack14 View Post

    I'm hoping that this was a satty that only paid two seats.

    Nothing so important. Just a local pub game for pizzas and t-shirts.
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