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Message: [QUOTE="Four Dogs, post: 339172, member: 2668"] OK, I've just finished reading Dan Harringtons new book [i]Harrington on Hold 'em vol. II[/i] and the first 1/2 the book deals with this exact situation. He breaks apart your tournament health into 5 zones based on your [b]M[/b], which is how your stack compares to the size of the blinds and antes. This gives you an idea of how many more rounds you can survive without making a bet. statements in quotation marks are exact quotes from the book. All others are paraphrased. [b]Green[/b]: You have 20 or more times the pot. [b]Yellow[/b]: 10-20 -"You lose the ability to play conservative poker" [b]Orange[/b]: 6-10 -You can no longer make complex moves which require a larger stack to succeed such as coming over the top to keep the button from stealing the blinds. [b]Red[/b]: 1-5 - "You've lost the ability to make a bet other than an all-in bet." [b]The Dead Zone[/b]- Less than the pot. " You appear to be alive but your not. Your a pokerwraith, not a player anymore, but a gnat to be swatted....You should never let yourself get to The Dead Zone by having your chips blinded away." Dan recommends that long before you arive at this point you should look for your first good chance to go All-In. Preferably as first in. He calls this "First In Vigorish". The idea is to steal the blinds with a less than premium hand, which you don't have the luxury of waiting for. With each pot at $1650.00, assuming a table of 10, you are cleary on the verge of becoming a pokerwraith with an M of about 1.5. Either give up now and don't bet again till you break the bubble or go all-in. A call here makes no sense at all, and a chance to tripple up and get back in the hunt with a pretty strong hand seems appealing. Sorry 'Jammer, I gotta vote girly-man here. [/QUOTE]

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