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[QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 7133753, member: 397965"]
I have watched a fair amount of streamed final tables from big events on PokerStars like the SCOOP and WCOOP high rollers. And one of the main things, I have taken away, is, that the best players in the world defend their blinds way less, when they are under high ICM pressure. So while you are correct, if we were playing in chip EV mode, we are very much not playing in chip EV mode here. And for that reason I think, this preflop depend is a mistake.

We can also look at this intuitively. We have 18.4 BB, which is a really awkward stack to play, when we dont want to go broke. If we nit up and run down the clock every hand, hopefully some players will bust at the other tables, and we get closer to the bubble. Sooner or later the blinds will go up, or we lost chips from folding, and now we have a stack, that is short enough to play push or fold.

Which mean that now the bigger stacks can no longer apply pressure to us but only wait for a hand, that is strong enough to call. Which is waaaay better for us than playing a bad hand out of position, just because "LOL pot odds". Or for that matter min-raising and getting 3-bet, like there is no tomorrow, because they know, we can only call with the very top of our range.

Very much agree. For me this sizing also scream "I hit top pair and want to make it a 2 street hand". I almost want to fold, and jamming seem suicidal.

Absolutely agree. Postflop the hand is mostly a bad beat story, and the only real decision was preflop.
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