The post i am about to type is relevant to the first article in full tilts tournament strategy book by howard lederer. It deals with the concept of leverage and MTT's.
It goes like this, the concept of leverage implies that in order to make a raise of 3 times the big blind, you must have 10 times the big blind in your stack. Also, in order to make a raise over top of the 3x raise, you must have 30x the bb.
This whole idea factors into how I just played this hand in a sng im playing as i type this. I unfortunately still can't get the convertor to work
http://poker-tools.flopturnriver.com/Hand-Converter.php It keeps telling me "This is not a recognized hand history format." when i copy and paste the text into the input and hit the button. So again I'm gonna have to put it in raw.
The villian in this hand is a lose player playing 33% of his hands but only raising 8% of them (this is on 18 hands)
Full Tilt Poker Game #4057038264: $24 + $2 Sit & Go (30832732), Table 3 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:05:37 ET - 2007/11/03
Seat 1: ihtbombs30 (1,255)
Seat 2: kiwi dave (3,615)
Seat 3: jkphk (2,370)
Seat 4: blue2525 (2,070)
Seat 5: vinibr (1,480)
Seat 6: northstar2077 (1,555)
Seat 7: btkid23 (1,980)
Seat 8: nonyac (875)
Seat 9: SmokeMorePot (1,865)
kiwi dave posts the small blind of 25
jkphk posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SmokeMorePot [Ts Td]
blue2525 folds
vinibr folds
northstar2077 folds
btkid23 raises to 175
nonyac folds
Call or raise?
I decided to raise to 550, as I had over 30x the bb and so did he. Both to define my hand and possibily get him to lay down his. He immediatly pushed allin when it came back to him and I folded in about 7 seconds. I wonder if a call would of been better in this situation and perhaps i made the wrong play. But this whole leverage concept at least enabled me not to commit myself to the pot. Should I have played the hand differently? And what are your opinions on Mr.Lederer's rule?