TK and everyone else, you have renewed my faith in this forum. For a while I actually thought I was the only one here who thought this was a good play.

No offense the Golden 1 but my name is not phil ivey but that does not make my advice wrong. I have made a very good living for myself playing poker and am absolutely astonished that you would make such a close minded statement. Also, the statement about a big stack behind me pushing to isolate isn't a correct statement. 99.9% of the time that a big stack reraises behind me it means he has a huge hand. He is not going to take the risk that I am calling here with a hand like AK or 10 10 and call his all in as well. As was said in an earlier post the other stacks are delighted to see the AI of a shortie called that it would take a pretty big hand to come over top here.

In response to the comment about restealing. You are right and wrong here. You are right in the aspect that restealing is a very good play but you also have to take into consideration who you are restealing from. People tend to resteal from the middle stacks more than any other stack at the table. The reasoning behind this is obvious (at least I think it is) but a short stack may feel committed to call off the rest of his chips with a mediocre hand which probably has you beat (seeing as resteals normally are best with rags) and a big stack might pick off your resteal thinking that he can afford to call with a decent hand. The middle stacks are not your worst enemy it is the short stack who will play with you without much of a hand because he is forced to gamble to get back in it.

If you think my advice is wrong, that is your perogative, I am not trying to "show anyone up" but am trying to throw the way that I play the game and give some feedback to a question that I think is a very excellent topic to be discussed.

Just remember...you will never be able to go through an entire tournament by getting in with the best of it...so don't even try. Take every edge you can get and sometimes those edges are losing situations long term, but tournament poker is not a long term situation because once you bust it is over.