| This is a discussion on Average Stack within the online poker forums, in the Tournament Poker section; Is this number - the average stack size - in tournaments important for the play ? I hear it often from players, iīm above average ... |
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| Average Stack Is this number - the average stack size - in tournaments important for the play ? I hear it often from players, iīm above average stack or below and so on... i wouldnīt say, itīs a useless statistic, but in my opinion the average stack is not so important like the M (Harrington) or the effective blinds (including antes) or other numbers.. |
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| Stack sizes are always important. "Average" stack size just isn't very specific which makes it less helpful. M is a way to measure your stack size that is more specific and therefore helpful. Effective stack sizes can be critical information - but the term effective just defines the measurement and is not the measurement itself. So yeah, I think you're right - "average" or "small" or "big" are all non-specific and relative terms that will never be as useful as having the actual measurements to work with. |
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| re: Poker & Average Stack Personally I live knowing whether im above/below average but it doesnt affect tournament play much. However, turbo and hyper-turbo tourneys where the avg stack is about 10BB means your shoving range can be slightly tighter when in the danger zone but its only slight. |
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basically it shouldnt really have a bearing on your game, but others often let it change their ranges |
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| Honestly, I ignore that number. The numbers I focus more on are the chip leader, the 2 chip leaders at my table and anyone under 10x bb. The chip leader is so I know how quickly things are moving. Without first beating your own table, no one else matters. |
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| About the only thing I use that is remotely close to average stack is what the average stack will be for final table. I calculate this at start of tourney - multiply number of players by starting stack then divide by number of seats at final table. This kind of gives me a magic number that I can target to tell myself I have enough to reach FT. It doesn't really affect my play that much - until... About all it's good for is deciding on coin flips - if I am above that number I am less likely to involve myself in an all in coin flip situation. If I am half that number with two or three tables left a coin flip looks a lot more appealing. |
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