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I dont want to be long so I will get to the point, the point is thinking at a higher level.

     While I was doing the final table commentary ( bluff radio)  at the WSOP 5k circuit event in Indiana a few months ago I was introduced to an online player called "Lilholdem". He had won the PartyPoker Sunday main event and had online cashes well over $300K in just a year. While on the money bubble, paying 18 out of 172 runners, lilholdem came across the following senerio:

     It was "bubble time" (not hammer time snoops) and he stated that he was running over the table w/ raises and reraises preflop. Lilholdem had gone from an average size stack of about 100K to a stack of about 170K  w/ blinds of 2k/4k w/ a 500 ante. It folds around to the cutoff who pushed allin for 12K, Lilholdem looks down at QQ in the BB and what does he do????????

     Lilholdem decides to PASS!!!!!! Thats right, he passes for onther 8K to the short stack. He does not show everyone, just the guy next to him that I know. Are you kidding me, WTF is this guy thinking was exactly what I said when I was told this story for the 1st time! Why I asked myself? To continue the story I have to tell you that Lilholdem went on to win the thing and take home about $250K. So after he won I had to ask him about this play. Here is his answer.

     He loved his table of weak players, he was making a killing on the "bubble" and he did not want the bubble to stop. I am sure there are other stories like this but this is the 1st time I actually saw it happen. He went on to tell me that he took his stack from 100k to 270K, all on the BUBBLE w/ out showing a card. The bubble lasted over 1hour and Lilkoldem just killed it. He also stated that he likes a few short stacks at his table because he feels they provide protection for his aggressive play. He usually does not tango w/ the short stacks.  ???????????????

For what its worth these are the type of stories that have opened my eyes to the "higher level of thinking"

The Rookie

         

LOL, interesting insight. If we had seen that type of play online, we'd all be shouting rigged, colluders!

Standard in a SNG and all the time if your name is Tightend. I wouldn't have the balls to do it in this situation though cos I'm a coward who likes to get ITM.

David Sklansky outlined this exact situation in, I think, Tournament Poker for Advanced Players, albeit hypothetically.

I have actually done it myself in a tournament which was a loyalty freeroll, and seemed to be full of cash players who had no real idea about tournament strategy. When we were down to eleven players I was destroying the other 4 players at my table by stealing, because the blinds were large. The shortstack was on my left. Every time it was his BB (with me on SB) and it was folded to me I'd fold and let him have a walk. Knocking him out would have reduced us to the final table of ten and I wouldn't necessarily be able to boss it. The chips I was stealing from the other players was way more than that in the shorty's stack, so it was in my interest not to let the tables merge.

TightEnd has been folding QQ on the Bubble for an age. In fact, omit "on the bubble".

Alex Martin too...

I saw Tighty ship the lot in with 4 king last week.

Misread

i was trying to play this way on saturday execpt they put me on a table where no one else had bigger than an average stack

Can he show just one player what he folded? Isn't it show one, show all?

Intresting read, isn't it common in cash games to let the fish win a few hands just to keep them in, never seen it in mtts then

 he really should have shown everyone, he just gave my buddy a quick look because he was in the small blind