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3. Paying attention to your effective
stack size can be crucial to the
success of your game.
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4. Not paying attention to it is one of the greatest
mistakes that tournament players make.
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5. In his Book Secrets of
Professional Tournament
Poker, Volume 1:
Fundamentals and How to
Handle Varying Stack Sizes,
Jonathan Little explains:
“...say
you
have
100BBs
(Big
Blinds)
in
the
small
blind
and
it’s
folded
to
you.
Your
raising
range
should
be
vastly
different
if
your
opponent
has
10BBs
as
opposed
to
100BBs.”
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6. No matter how big the game is, effective stack
size is an important thing to be aware of...
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7. …but it is especially important if you
are in a hand with only one player. You
will only win or lose however much the
other player has, therefore you have to
consider the smaller stack size.
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8. Be aware! Effective
stack size is only
important in no
limit and pot limit
games where the
chance is not likely
that the players will
get their whole
stack into the pot.
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10. ****************************************
*player
A
has
100BBs
in
his
stack
*player
B
has
5BBs
in
his
stack
bet
5BBs,
the
effecAve
Because
player
B
can
only
stack
size
is
5BBs
because,
no
ma2er
what,
that
is
all
that
player
B
can
bet.
****************************************
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13. Jonathan Little expands on considering
effective stack size in a multi-player game:
“So,
if
you
are
in
the
cutoff
with
50BBs,
the
buEon
(dealer)
has
10BBs,
the
small
blind
has
20BBs
and
the
big
blind
has
30BBs,
you’re
in
a
tough
situaHon,
as
you
should
play
quite
differently
against
each
player...”
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14. “...In
this
situaHon,
I
will
generally
raise
only
hands
with
which
I
am
willing
to
call
all-‐in
from
the
smallest
stack
all
of
the
Hme
and
the
other
stacks
some
of
the
Hme.”
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16. Players who may have
100BBs or more in their
stack sizes can tend to
ignore you. Still, being the
player with the shortest
stack can give you an
edge and yield you profit
in the end.
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17. A player with a short stack who knows how
to play the game and is willing to put it on
the line and go all-in, can do that with a
wide range of cards and potentially clean up.
That player can be very dangerous at any table.
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