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Late Stage of Big Tournaments

FloppedBackdoorTrips

Wooster, OH

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July 16, 2012 - 5:23 am

Hey guys,

So I was lucky enough to make a deep run in the Merge major this week, but felt I played the later stages really terribly and wanted to get some input.

With about 80 people left, I was 6th in chips with about 40BBs.

However, just about everyone at my table had stacks between 10-20 BBs, so I felt like I couldn't open light…and basically just played like a nit until I was down to a 20BB stack myself.

So my question is: how do I leverage the advantage of a bigger stack when everyone else is so short?

Funnnuraba

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July 16, 2012 - 10:02 am

try to get a feel for the table, who is gonna reship light, wo is playing tighter. Pick on the tighter players.

Don't just raise/fold into the 20BB stacks blindly. Are they jamming any2 on you because they see you as weak? Use their aggression against them: Widen your calling range.

Try to pick on the other “bigger” stacks that can't/don't want to reship light. Bigdog does a great job of picking on the relatively larger stacks on the table since they don't want to mess with the bigstack.

Maybe you just openjam into aggro shorter stacks, as this is gonna be > than raise/fold.

Nokaman

Newington, CT

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July 16, 2012 - 2:22 pm

I typically don't get discouraged and just keep opening. I know it's tough when there are solid players around who know how to play a SS properly, and if that's the case I think that we do just have to tighten up if we're gettin shoved on tons.

You probably went a little card dead, lost a 10-15 bb flip here, r/f couple times there, and next thing you know you have 20-25bb and are like wtf (this is what happened in my run last night, sigh). I'd chalk it up as kind of unfortunate. It's gonna work a lot, and unless your r/f is super high, you're not gonna get exploited. Can't do anything about it when people wake up.

Oh and gotta work on your flipping abilites =)

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