MetalSkin

This is the only argument I have with your stratedgy, as the rest mirrors my own. When you're the big stack at this stage you have to keep pressure on the other players. Particularly the small stacks. A good thing to do is to make sure almost no hand is played for the cost of the BB. If you can keep small stacks from playing their blinds, they get ground down. Yes, you risk your standing, but what happens if you don't is the smaller stacks begin trading chips around and you soon have parity. That's where everyone has pretty much evened up in chips. Even if you're still leading, there now aren'

I was in a low buy-in NL tournament with re-buys this past Friday. The table I was at was very loose and aggressive. Lots of all-ins and lots of calls. Very little respect to raises. It was about 1/2 hour after the re-buy period ended, and I was down to $750 in chips after taking a bad beat when 99s hit quads to my pocket QQ. The blinds were at 50-100. In two minutes they would go up to 100-200 with a 25 ante added. The chip leader is in the big blind with about 10k. 1st position limps in with about 3.5-4k in his stack. The field folds to me on the button. I hold QJ spades. I raise to 300. The