Quote Originally Posted by nova_couple32
I played in an online tourney and i was in 100th place out of 200 left (6000 people started). I had over 100k and so did one other guy at the table, everyone else had between 10k and 20k. I was next to last to bet and one guy had already gone all in, the other guy (with 100k called), I had AK suited and reraised another 10k thinking the guy would fold so I could just go heads up ( I felt the short stacked guy was desperate and I was right) however the other guy went all in. I called (not sure I would ever do that again having as many chips as I had) and the short stack had Ace rag, the other had JJ and of course I lost. I don't care about losing after all it was a freeroll, but was that the right way to approach that hand?
If you feel you can outplay the other players I don't think you need to race. Not against this guy I mean. You can bully everyone but him so I don't get tangled in a race here. I'm not sure I even reraise at all. You've got a drawing hand remember? And once you did reraise you could've let it go and you would've still had a lot of people outchipped. However, if you're not a very good player and you've raced to get this far then I'm fine with you pushing here. Even though you've got your tables chipstacks dominated, you're still just in the middle of the pack. So I think they answer depends on your confidence in yourself.