Chip Leader

How do you keep your chip lead? Do you play aggressive and make the short stacks fold, or do you play tight and let other people hang themselves when you have a great hand?

Attack the medium stacks

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Usually short stacks have a looser range so bluffing or attacking them is not a good idea, you obv dont want to mess with the other big stacks, so the medium/scared/surviving medium stacks will usually let you steal..

Well for one thing this really depends on the situation. The size of the tournament and blind:stack size are the most important.

In a single table sng, you want to be pushing the middle size stacks. The short stacks are likely to call with a large range of hands. With large blinds, you should be more LAG, and small blinds, more TAG especially at lower limits.

In large tournaments, I tend to stay pretty TAG until the last 20% of people or so when the blinds get really large. Then blind stealing is very important for middle to large stacks.

i think u either play tight or you sit out completely so you dont get caught up in hand that would put your chip stack in jeopardy before the money

When I find myself in the chip lead position I tend to turn into the bully. Limping no longer becomes an option in my arsenal. I try to stay away from other big stacks that could take a chunk from my own. But I like to pick off the blinds from the small and medium stacks.

I'm not saying I will play any two cards but my range definitely widens (any face card with a decent kick will do). I use opponent stack sizes as a bigtime factor in the amount that I bet. If I'm not quite ready to call an all-in re-raise from a specific person than I will make a bet that would give me room to throw away if need be; but i still bet.

...that's just me.

in a tournament, ofcourse attack the short stacks and medium stacks.. you want to apply pressure on them.. they aren't as likely to steal your blinds since they would be risking their tournament life on a bluff... especially when people are about to cash.. thats when you really want to apply pressure as everyone wants to make that cash..

Allot of players tend to loosen up when they have the chip lead late in the game, personally I try to see as many flops as possible for the lowest amount of chips, like all poker its a numbers game. Watch out for short stack all ins, and try to wait out premium hands, patience with a little aggressiveness at the right times will get you to the final table. Chip lead gives you allot more advantages to either play your stack or your cards depending on position. Mix up your play so the other players cannot put you on your hand.

You keep yer chip lead by WINNING!