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Going all in gives you 2 options, either you’ll win a lot of chips or in the worst case you’re game is over. If it isn’t over then you’ll have to work your way up again.

When is the best time to go all in?

At the start of every tournament you’ll see some nutcases going all in with hands you’ll probably lose with 9 times out of 10. But if they win or when they go all in on the button, it could be the case that they’ll win a good amount of chips. But most of the times they’ll get out of the tournament very quickly.
I almost never call those all in’s at the start of the tournament unless I have top cards.
So to me they’re just plain stupid and don’t know what poker is about. It could be their strategy, but at the end they’ll always lose.
I see lots of people who just lost an all in and have a little stack left and go tilt. The next hand they’ll go all in and if they win, they’ll go all in again. Just to increase their stack a bit more.
This is the time you can take an advantage of the situation. If you got something in your hands, make the call. Most of the times you’ll only lose a third of your stack or even less, so it’s worth making the call as you will play against minor cards anyhow. You’ll have to be extremely unlucky to call a good hand.

But that’s not my kind of game. Before I’m going all in I’ll make sure I have the best chance of winning.  Yesterday I made a mistake against my own rules. With pocket queens I raised to let everybody know I had a good hand. 1 player called for a head to head. The flop was 789, so I still had top pair in my hands. Here’s where my mistake started. Knowing I had the highest pair, I didn’t want him to see the next card as a straight was very much possible with 789. So I went all in. He immediately called with pocket 9’s. Damn, I’m playing against trips. If I played it different I would at least had a chance to see he’s having good cards or not.
If I just raised on the flop and he would have re-raised or called me for example. If the turn was a good card to play for a straight, I could have bluffed him. It would be hard, but it’s my own error that I didn’t have the chance of doing it like this. So gone was my tournament of the day after no Queen showed up after the river.

Too bad, as I was playing pretty good, again made good call’s when I needed to, nobody really bluffed me out. I only folded once to another player’s all in, even when I was pretty certain I had the best hand, but I didn’t want to put my tournament on the line at that time.
After ending in the money again the day before I ended on the 348th place today.

Before the tournament started I played for real money also. Wednesday evening I played also, but ended 8 cents in loss. Today I made this up and leveled again.

Lesson for today, think before going all in.

Up to the next tournament.

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