Need help with bubble game

[wonderland]

hey there,

Having taken much advice from the FTR guys having posted my HH, my game has improved quite nice. I am finishing around 3rd on average now, sometimes 4th, sometimes 2nd.

This has mainly been due to tightening up my early game. I probably still make a few bad moves but overall i just hold onto my chips for dear life. During that period, i usually get a good hand and end up all in with a donk who thinks it's reasonable to go all in with 9 10s.

So i remain tight and end up in the bubble in 2nd place, sometimes chip leader.

This is where it all goes to shit. Listed here is exactly what happens every time:

me: 4000
a: 6000
b: 2500
c: 1000 (somtimes as little as 500)

ok...

1) a steals from everybody
2) i try to steal and get called or re-raised
3) c goes all-in every few rounds and never gets called, taking blinds.
4) c gets a decent stack (gets called by big stack and wins a pot) and this happens:

me: 2000
a: 5500
b: 3000
c: 3000

Then this (same process, all the while i'm dealt rags):

me: 1000
a: 6500
b: 3000
c: 3000

I go all-in and the first or second time i do so, usuall with: AJs, AK, QQ, JJ etc. I get called by the big stack with ace rag, king rag, pocket pair and I miss the board famously.

If i can improve my bubble game i'll be winning more than i'm losing. As it stands i'm winning about 40/45%

cheers!

[Stripclubjunkie]

Ok when blinds are high in relation to your stack, say 1/10th then you have to push or fold. And if you get called by Ax where you have the best hand and loose then it doesn't matter. You made the right move!

I would be happy to look over some of your hand histories where you get to bubble play to see if I can help or better just post your bubble play only. Im playing the 3.4$ sngs at stars (very fishy too)

strip

[taipan168]

The best way to get advice, as always, is to post tourneys or hands. It sounds like you might be missing some shoving spots.

The thing that is initially strange about SNGs is that you need to go from being ultra squeaky tight at the early levels to often shoving any two cards where the situation is right (eg. it's folded to you in the SB, you have ~10x BB or less, and you have the BB covered or almost covered).

[wonderland]

ok chaps. here it is

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...99.html#755015

thanks in advance