Tournament Play

[Ironside]

i said postion not cards

[Sheriff Fatman]

Much would depend on the remaining payout structure for me.  If its the typical Grosvenor structure where you've now made back your money but 18th pays the same as 10th then I'm more inclined to push here than anything else.  You've got work to do to survive another 9 players so you might as well double up now or bust out trying.

Ordinarily if I was raising this hand  I would just push as any sort of 'standard' raise pretty much commits you anyway and you hopefully gain more fold equity (although some players will be more likely to call an all-in bet than a smaller raise).  However, with you being UTG here its possible that a min-raise might get through if the players are likely to be suspicious of it.  Much depends on your image at the table.

If the payout structure had any sort of incremental increase between 18th and 10th place then I'm more likely to consider the min-raise/limp/fold options compared to the push. If not, there's little downside to just pushing (I busted out of the £750 last week with this attitude but I'm still happy enough with the play).

Sheriff