Clueless Wonder

Last night I took another shot at my goal of winning both of the Daily Double tournaments on FullTilt. And true to form I went deep in one while making an early exit in the other. That's obviously my pattern now. In all reality I would love to join those people like Garth that have at least cashed in both. I think that's a better step at first. Then we can move on to the dual final tables and wins. Anyway, my previous post about short stack play was in full effect last night when we were down to 21 people left in the Daily Double A. My 'M' was below 3 when there's a MP raiser with a big stack and it's folded to me in the BB and the blinds at 5000/2500. I look down at 78 and push, hoping for a fold or two live cards. In this case I didn't even get my 40-60 shot as the raiser held QQ and IGH with 5x my buyin. Not bad and I'll take it every time. But it is always frustrating to make it that close to a decent payday in a small buyin tournament and not taking it all the way. Anyway, I have no issues with the raiser waking up there with a big pair. The majority of the time he will have either overcards or even an underpair. I'm happy with either of those in that situation. If you refuse to take a few risks or are afraid to push with less than stellar cards when you get deep into a tournament then you severely hurt your chances to win the whole thing. Now I'm not advocating it with maybe 5 players left and there's a shorter stack than you. Then it's ok to try and limp up one more spot on the payout ladder. Below the final table though I just don't see it as there's not enough money on the line.