Ok here we are on the exact ft bubble of the $33 10k GTD. on Merge and apparently the 10th place person has busted as we are in this hand and the top 3 chipleaders have about 3 times our stack. OTB we pick up A7s with the blinds going up in I believe it was 3 minutes…the SB (Hermione) is running a 27/24 over a significant amount of hands and has 3bet us a couple of times very recently when we LP raise once we folded to his 3bet,and once we 4bet shipped and he folded.The BB (Elliemay) is running a 17/13 over a significant amount of hands and has played very tight and standard not in the action much at all while at my tables.

It folds around to us OTB… whats the correct winning play here if we are (overall) trying to build a stack to contend for a chance to win and not to merely move up a few pay bumps.The payouts on Merge are VERY top heavy fwiw.

Merge Network $10,000 Guaranteed Freezeout No Limit Hold'em Tournament – t2000.00/t4000.00 Blinds + t400.00 – 5 players
TournamentPokerEdge.com Hand History Converter

RonHaas (UTG): BB = 19.0, t76137
poonaniboy (CO): BB = 18.7, t74892
Hero (BTN): BB = 18.3, t73220
Herm1oneGranger (SB): BB = 36.6, t146588
EIIieMay (BB): BB = 23.8, t95159

Pre Flop: (t8000) Hero is BTN with 7 A hero???