May 8, 2013
Hi All,
I have just ended a day 1 of a big enough tournament here in my area (Three day 1’s, roughly 1000 entrants overall) with a stack of 30 big blinds at the starting level of the final day.
I understand that it will all be player and table dependent but I am looking for any general advice or concepts for playing this stack size, must watch videos or articles etc. The organisers reckon the bubble will burst pretty soon after starting the final day. The structure is slow enough at 30 minute levels.
Cheers!
Ro
TPE Pro
August 25, 2012
Not really in agreement that opening wide and 3-bet bluffing at 30bb stacks are not an option. To be honest, since it’s very difficult to effectively flat-call preflop raises on <30bb, your best chances to pick up chips are by taking good open spots and 3-bet spots.
If you take just two or three good 3-bet bluff spots then you can chip up from 30bb to over 40bb very comfortably with no showdown. The good thing about 3-betting on these stacks is that as long as you get your sizing right (2.75x-3x OOP, 2.25x-2.5x IP) you’re unlikely to be in any tough spots – people won’t flat reasonably-sized 3-bets that much at these stacks, and as long as you’re 3-bet bluffing with a somewhat polarized range, your decisions versus a 4-bet shove are easy.
One piece of advice I would give is to drop a lot of the hands out of your opening range that contain two cards 8 or lower. That means occasionally folding hands like 66 or 76s in spots where you would usually open them, and opening hands like KTo or A2s instead. The reason being that Ace blockers and high card blockers have a significant impact on how often you actually get called or 3-bet preflop, so it’s more advantageous to open blocker hands at shortish stacks than it is hands that are going to play uncomfortably postflop and get called or 3-bet more often. Cards below a 7 or 8 are ‘reverse blockers’ which make life more difficult, especially when there are more players left to act behind us and we’re in EP.
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