Another thing about this is... What is more important when playing shortstacked poker and the average stack has an M between 6-10? Is you M more important? Or is the fact that everyone is desperate make you play more conservatively? I felt like pushing KQs here was a mistake simply because I was just below the average stack size. Is this right? or was my M low enough to allow a shove? I have found that after getting ITM, everyone is folding around to the blinds like crazy at these things so I loosen up a lot and start raising hands like A6s in middle position and if the BB calls, I am going to raise the flop no matter what (unless the BB makes a move before me, of course). I feel that others get too tight and maybe I should start to give more credit to a preflop raise and focus on playing one opponent/allow them to see a flop and push them off after that?
For example, I played this hand when everyone was getting super tight and playing VERY weak, I felt if I bet a small amount and got reraised I had an easy escape... good play?:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (9 handed)
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BB (t10940)
UTG (t14335)
UTG+1 (t7760)
MP1 (t10080)
MP2 (t2862)
MP3 (t9979)
CO (t5135)
Button (t1143)
Jon_AK (t7425)
Preflop: Jon_AK is SB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
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2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t1400</font>, <font color="#666666">
4 folds</font>, Jon_AK calls t1200, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>.
Flop: (t2800) A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Jon_AK bets t1900</font>