late tourny mistake?

[rexmundi 0]

So here's the deal. I decided to step up and play a 30$ buy holdem tourny at partypoker..Anyways, going into the money, I became chip leader. At this point, I felt pretty good about my chances for making it to the final table. Whenever I feel this smug, I tend to get greedy and slowplay more, which ALWAYS hurts me. So anyways, a little later in the tourny, I flop trips with position. I let someone bet into me, so I decide to just smooth call to the river and milk all his chips...only problem is, on the river I realize I am in trouble, and sure enough, he hit his straight. Now, this late in the tourny, should I have raised on the flop right away? Or was slowplaying this the general better play..because had I won that hand, I'd be 3x the 2nd place guy.. .. And a few hands later, I decided to just limp from EP w QQ.. flop come rag, K , T, i check raise the flop. A little reraising on the turn, and the river brings another ten.. GOOD GAME REX.. Now, is raising no matter what preflop mandatory? I don't think the guy would have called w T9s EP, but who knows.. my tourny would have flowed on, and I am sure I'd have hit the final table hard.. .. So, my real question is, this late in a tourny, should I set less traps with full tables, and save the slow playing stronger hands for short handed play?? ../Anyways, ended up 12.. still disappointed though...

[JTPHS 0]

I always like playing aggressively.. especially in tourneys. I only slowplay if i feel like i have the rock solid nuts and have to get every last chip.By playing aggressively... people fear you and you can collect chips that way and make it to the final table, growing the whole way, completely uncontested. The idea for me is to run over people, but if they fight back.. get out of the way, and set your trap that way. Let them fight back when you have a monster then take them all in.See what other people say.. that's just my theory.. other things work too.

[someguy 0]

I don't like to slowplay often, but the times I do is when there aren't a lot of likely draws on the board. For example if I hold 5-5 and the flop comes down 5-K-9 rainbow I'd definately slowplay here, no reasonable flush/straight draws out there so the chance of someone drawing out on me is small enough for me to let them see a free card or two. If I held 5-5 and the flop came down 4-5-6 with two spades, however, I'd bet big on the flop and try to make people pay to hit their flush/straight draws.

[the_stein 0]

No way, if you want to slow play and take risks do it at the beginning of the tournament, but late in you want to be solid as a rock

[jayistheman 0]

passiveness kills you in tournamentslimping and slowplay are 2 things that i almost never do in an online tournament (with the obligatory gargantuan blinds)... people are almost commited to their draws anyway, so make them pay...and as a high stack, why limp? people are expecting you to pressure their blinds and will most likely defend with really marginal hands... i think its more deceptive to show down a good hand as a high stack.think about it... a high stack raises 3 pots a round and picks up blinds.... when he is finally called he shows QQ KK or AA.... it always kind of suprising to see that

[johnboys1 0]

You should really make them pay to see anymore cards, especially if you're the chip leader. If I'm low and I'm drawing in a tourny, all I want to do is see some free cards. Use your big stack to your advantage.