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Riddim
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 Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| never_scurred wrote: |
Deep-stack MTT are great! I play my best poker in DS MTT because I have room to play my style of tourney poker LAG and good players have time to build a stack..
WHY aren't there more deep stack tourneys online???
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I wasn't really talking about tourneys, since you rarely get in a situation where several players are really deep (200+xBB), even if it's a DS tournament. In cash games where several players have twice the buy-in or more though, you might really get to make some decisions on every street, even in raised pots. For example you often have a lot more than half your stack left even after a raise and re-raise before the flop and a pot-sized bet and a raise on the flop. Let's say that the game is .5/1 and the effective stack sizes in a heads up pot are 200. After a 3x raise and a 3x re-raise there'd be about 20 in the pot if the blinds aren't involved in the hand, and each player would have 191 left to bet. Now if one player bets 20 and the other raises to 60, he still has about 130 left in his stack. This puts enormous pressure on the flop bettor, since he knows that he is very likely to have to put in the rest of his money if he wishes to continue with the hand. Instead of making a 70xBB decision like he would with a full buy-in, which can be hard enough, he's essentially making a single decision for 170xBB right there on the flop. This is what fascinates me about deep-stack NL, and makes me a little uncomfortable playing it at the same time. Just imagine how much room there is for betting, even on the river, in pots where there's only been a single raise. |
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never_scurred
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I understand! You could always use the short stack strategy that Ed Miller presented in GSIH, OR you could learn how to play NL...
Time to get my a## beat again at FL, later. |
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