$2 FT SnG: blinds are 100/200, 7 players...?

[illness]

This is a situation I've found myself in twice this weekend. I haven't been able to properly adjust and am quite lost. I've caught myself just hoping for luck, although I think this is just me not playing push/fold too well.

The situation is this. The table started with 4 tight nits and 2 weak/tight and 2 weak/loose. One of the nits busted first, followed by one of the weaker players.

So now blinds are 50/100, and the weak/tight players never get into push/fold mode and keep limping and folding(with 5-7BB), then catching miracle cards and staying alive. The average stack is about 2250 and every player has had chip lead at least once.
Blinds are 100/200 and still 7 players left. No big pots and only small pots going around to every player.

I'm able to adjust to the blind increases, however I'm used to people slowly busting out along the way. With the blinds increasing and people not going out, its hard to readjust if there is an adjustment necessary.
It just seems hard to push with that many people. I was doing it in the Co/BTN, but it didn't get me too far, I only stole the blinds every so often.

What are your takes on the situation? Do you open up your hand selection or just rely on push/fold to stay alive and knock some other players out along the way?

[taipan168]

Hard to answer your question in a general sense, you'd be better off posting a specific hand with reads to give us something to react to.

As a generalisation, and I'm sure you already know this, the more players there are to act, the tighter your push range has to be. You can often push any two cards if it's folded to you in the SB but if you're UTG then you need a much stronger hand to push (and you'd be surprised at the hands that are a fold from UTG).

[illness]

I figured thats what a response would be. The problem is that it was just the situation at the table in general. I can't even describe it with the hands. It was playing like a cash game. Nobody was putting any pressure on anyone and whoever had the hand didn't play for stacks. I guess the question is moreso, if you've been in this situation where the blinds were getting high but people weren't busting out, how did you adjust?

I always try to play opposite to the table. But the table was an awkward medium. If there were limpers, I'd raise and take the pot. If there were raisers, I played my better hands. I guess the hands never came.

[taipan168]

I guess the question is moreso, if you've been in this situation where the blinds were getting high but people weren't busting out, how did you adjust?

Not sure whether you can really do anything to "adjust" other than make +EV decisions based upon the table situation at the time (as you should with every poker hand you play).

If you want to post the trimmed tourney for us to have a look, feel free to do so (but I think you need 10 posts to do so first).