MTT End Game missing something?

[carpe2k]

Played in Full Tilts W.S.O.P. 100 on Sunday. 3050 Players. Top 127 win a $12,000. package to W.S.O.P. Main Event. Busted out in 216th place. Double Stack= 3000 .First Break I have almost doubled my stack.=5445.AVG=3796. Second Break doing well. 13,560.AVG=8273. After second break start to go card dead. Stealing just to keep up. Third break= 12,120. AVG= 28,955. Just looking for a hand to push and double up. Nothing and constantly raised before me. Very Very frustrating to get that close. Am I just waiting too long? Should I be pushing small edges (willing to gamble more?) Or is it just variance that you go card dead for an hour?
Feel like there is a piece of the puzzle missing. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[Slap My Jack]

Post hands.

There's really not much major analysis one can do of your endgame without seeing it. If you've never gone card dead for an hour before then you're a luckier person than most.

[bucktotal]

sometimes it just don't work out.

u do what you can . and you go home

[illini43]

If you haven't yet, I would reccomned reading HoH 1 and 2.

Harrington on Hold'em Vol. 2 focuses on the endgame more specifically.

[nath]

Something's missing, all right.

[carpe2k]

Well, the best hands I was seeing were K 10o and A 3s. Tough to push after a raise with that crap. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[JohnFR]

what's wrong with pushing KTo against a raise if that raiser has been raising often? I think I figured out the power of the resteal 2 years ago while watching a $650. There were a bunch of players making 3xBB raises trying to steal pots, one of the shorter stacks at the table(JoeyTrib was his name I believe, he even had a picture of Matt LeBlanc which made me laugh) was pushing all-in over their raises about 1 time every 2 orbits, and never got called, and by the time they hit the absolute bubble, he went from a short stack to the biggest stack at his table.

I have no problem pushing all in if I have a good restealing stack and the raiser has been raisign pretty often.

[carpe2k]

Your point is good if you know something about the raiser.
At this point in the tournament new players were being moving to your table constantly. No reads possible. I eventually HAD to move in with K 10o and got called by A6s who hit a backdoor flush. THATZPOKER.

[JohnFR]

sounds like you got too short where A6s could call you. If you had pushed earlier with say 92o, when you actually had a stack that could get a player off of Arag, then you would have been better off.

[carpe2k]

Once the antes got big it was killing me. As a short stack, once the antes begin, that should be my clue to GET BUSY as waiting is bleeding to death.