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Rock Star
Silver Level
Just 4 years into Texas Holdem -and poker in general?
I mostly play tournaments and I only recently affirmed (at least to me) a concern I've had.
And that is - chips are relative in tournament play in that as the tournament progresses, the blinds increase and if you are in the final group to cash, where you may have started with 1500 chips ? you PROBABLY have 45,000.
Now, final stages of a tournament? You are paying blinds that are more than your STARTING stack.
So, I have been realizing that I need to let go in tournaments to some 'absolute' value - if I don't - I won't be able to bet in proportion to my stack and everyone else's stack.
In a cash game- oh, a dollar is a dollar
But in a tournament, there is what I'll just call a 'slide' - I am confident 90% of the people reading this are saying 'yeah - no sht Sherlock' - but I think it's a valuable point to realize- the 'letting go' and realizing 1 chip at the beginning of a tournament is not the same as 1 chip near the end, where in a cash game- 1 chip is 1 chip - always.
Perhaps I could call it 'inflation' - like fiat currency - where a dollar is a dollar, but it's VALUE can change...
I mostly play tournaments and I only recently affirmed (at least to me) a concern I've had.
And that is - chips are relative in tournament play in that as the tournament progresses, the blinds increase and if you are in the final group to cash, where you may have started with 1500 chips ? you PROBABLY have 45,000.
Now, final stages of a tournament? You are paying blinds that are more than your STARTING stack.
So, I have been realizing that I need to let go in tournaments to some 'absolute' value - if I don't - I won't be able to bet in proportion to my stack and everyone else's stack.
In a cash game- oh, a dollar is a dollar
But in a tournament, there is what I'll just call a 'slide' - I am confident 90% of the people reading this are saying 'yeah - no sht Sherlock' - but I think it's a valuable point to realize- the 'letting go' and realizing 1 chip at the beginning of a tournament is not the same as 1 chip near the end, where in a cash game- 1 chip is 1 chip - always.
Perhaps I could call it 'inflation' - like fiat currency - where a dollar is a dollar, but it's VALUE can change...