Chasing Giants

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When there is a giant stack at the table, compared to my own anyway, I will intentionally try to play hands against them even if it means playing marginal hands (such as 9To) in the hopes I hit a lucky flop. Assuming, of course, there isn’t a large bet preflop. Here’s my reasoning behind this and yes this is pure gambling. I look at the potential for building my stack quickly. If I hit a lucky flop then a giant stack is much more likely to put chips into the pot because they don’t have to worry about you hurting them very much. This greatly improves the chance of doubling up if played well. When doing this, I never try to bluff. If I miss the flop I just throw the hand away.
The keys are you must hit a hand and you cannot bluff, but when I chase the giant stack this way I find it very easy to pick up 25-50% of my stack and even sometimes a double-up.
 
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That's not true at all unless your "giant stack" is a complet donk. You are just spewing a Little at the time untill you are too short to do anything.
Good people play based on the level of the tournament they are at that time not based on your stack.. 100bb is still 100bb and If i have 500bb it does not mean i will start losing 100 with a marginal hand, blinds will catch up to everyone in a few minutes anyway [emoji14] but good luck If You will continue with this.. you'll need it
 
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This is an interesting tactic, but it strongly depends on the player who owns the "giant stack". I often see how these stacks are built just with garbage. It happens - the player simply wins any nominations, he is incredibly lucky. This is of course a rarity, and not always such players survive even before the ITM, but it is very easy to get into the "skating rink" of someone else's luck. Even if you got a pair on the flop - it does not make your hand win, against the lucky bastard ...
 
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I think it depends on the tournament. If it's a freeroll, iI agree your tactics work, I've used it as well. In bigger stakes tournament, not so much. I mean it can work depending on the player, but I'm not using it so much, it failed a couple of times.
 
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When there is a giant stack at the table, compared to my own anyway, I will intentionally try to play hands against them even if it means playing marginal hands (such as 9To) in the hopes I hit a lucky flop. Assuming, of course, there isn’t a large bet preflop. Here’s my reasoning behind this and yes this is pure gambling. I look at the potential for building my stack quickly. If I hit a lucky flop then a giant stack is much more likely to put chips into the pot because they don’t have to worry about you hurting them very much. This greatly improves the chance of doubling up if played well. When doing this, I never try to bluff. If I miss the flop I just throw the hand away.
The keys are you must hit a hand and you cannot bluff, but when I chase the giant stack this way I find it very easy to pick up 25-50% of my stack and even sometimes a double-up.
OK Jack, good-luck.

BTW, I have some magic beans for sale;):D
 
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This is most likely than not considered a leak in your game. You are most likely losing more chips than you are gaining. Plus your arguments will also work for the villain. He has a huge stack and you have a small one, so your only option is to call and fold flop, because your fold equity is small. You will not hit as many flops as you miss and if you are short stack a 3x punt will cripple you. I would only do this if their were like 2-3 calls and you can figure they have each others blockers and you are sitting with a suited connector or a small PP.
 
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