Playing Different Stack Sizes

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Hey CCs,

I seem to have one big problem during online MTTs, and I am not sure if this is something that most others come across as well.

I believe to be excellent at building a stack, and often times after the early levels, I'll find myself in a Top 5 position. My problem arises once I have a chip lead on a certain table, or at least, have one of the largest chip stacks. My question is: how do you play with a larger chip stack, and continue it's size w/out becoming to aggressive and donking off your chips? I find it difficult to play more aggressive as a chip leader because many people call shove me w/ ridiculous ranges and floaters either get there, or I just find myself in Tiltland after losing multiple big pots.

I consider myself a tight player, and I feel for the most part I make the right calls mathematically and instinctually UNTIL I have a fat stack. What're your guys' strategies? Would you recommend playing even tighter, or waiting until the stacks even out THEN continue tight-aggro play?

Thanks in advance!
 
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Hey CCs,

I seem to have one big problem during online MTTs, and I am not sure if this is something that most others come across as well.

I believe to be excellent at building a stack, and often times after the early levels, I'll find myself in a Top 5 position. My problem arises once I have a chip lead on a certain table, or at least, have one of the largest chip stacks. My question is: how do you play with a larger chip stack, and continue it's size w/out becoming to aggressive and donking off your chips? I find it difficult to play more aggressive as a chip leader because many people call shove me w/ ridiculous ranges and floaters either get there, or I just find myself in Tiltland after losing multiple big pots.

I consider myself a tight player, and I feel for the most part I make the right calls mathematically and instinctually UNTIL I have a fat stack. What're your guys' strategies? Would you recommend playing even tighter, or waiting until the stacks even out THEN continue tight-aggro play?

Thanks in advance!


If you're being played back at too much, you might be playing too wide a range as a big stack. Just because you have the chip lead doesnt mean you can raise without discretion. People catch on to that very quickly and can exploit that by shoving their moderate hands. If you're being floated too much you might not be charging enough for the float. The beauty of having a big stack comes in the late middle stages of a tournament where a raise doesnt necessarily pot commit a short stack, but makes them have to make tough decisions about the rest of their stack. So in a nutshell when you have a big stack, play less hands and bet more when you do play hands.
 
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Thanks for the wonderful post. You educated me in many areas.
 
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Hey CCs,

I seem to have one big problem during online MTTs, and I am not sure if this is something that most others come across as well.

I believe to be excellent at building a stack, and often times after the early levels, I'll find myself in a Top 5 position. My problem arises once I have a chip lead on a certain table, or at least, have one of the largest chip stacks. My question is: how do you play with a larger chip stack, and continue it's size w/out becoming to aggressive and donking off your chips? I find it difficult to play more aggressive as a chip leader because many people call shove me w/ ridiculous ranges and floaters either get there, or I just find myself in Tiltland after losing multiple big pots.

I consider myself a tight player, and I feel for the most part I make the right calls mathematically and instinctually UNTIL I have a fat stack. What're your guys' strategies? Would you recommend playing even tighter, or waiting until the stacks even out THEN continue tight-aggro play?

Thanks in advance!

If you are getting too many shovels I guess you should focus on playing hands with people with middle stack, you probably will see less shovels as the stack size increases, the advice: Play tighter against players with low stack and looser with higher stacks
 
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If you consider yourself a tight player already, why change your game at all?

You are overthinking things. I personally don't think stack size matters at all. I just look to stay ahead of the blinds. I have never went wire to wire winning a tournament. I'm sure a few people have gotten lucky, but usually it just doesn't happen. Through the course of a tournament, you would be surprised how things even out. Some people get hot early and get a big stack to go card dead later, some people start slow and get hot late.

You can "try" too much sometimes and it can hurt your game.
 
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You should play a few hands and aggressively. Do not get in hand that you are not willing to go until the end. The big stack of chips will only make a difference in the bubble, if you stay you will be pressing all the time the shorts will see the opportunity to bend over you and with medium hands. It is not uncommon to see the monster stacks stay out of itm because they have abused marginal hands.
 
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Your posts are very usefull or beginners
 
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If you are in a top 5 situation with a big stack, than you should play top 12% of your Hands. That means all double pair, especially the small double pair to get a set which have a very big value, but not in a 1 vs 1 situation, you need 3-4 player to play this profitable. And your opponent should have at least 1/3 of your stack.
AKo-AQo, Aks-A10s, KQs-K10s, KQo-QJo, QJs-109s. The other suited broadways can you play in MT2 position.
 
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Depending on your opponents game, make a pressure on shortstacked or tightly players and be carefull with more loose opponents, also in multipot.
 
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Saw a good online video by Daniel Negreanu suggesting you should tighten up and stay away from other big stacks - you're in a good position so take your time and wait for good spots, no need to rush it.
 
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I too have a habit of opening my range up after getting a healthy stack. I will call a lot more flips than I normally would with a smaller stack. It has cost me more then helped. I seemed to be knocked back down. I am going to go the other direction in the future and play more tight.
 
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Hello I would recommend that you play an aggressive passive game so if you have a hand that you think is good and some other player assaults you by raising the bet you respond with more aggression, in case you have hit something on the flop, that Your bet makes your rival believe that you have the best hand and that you can not beat on the other streets.
 
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