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I wrote this down after i heard an interview with a hyper aggressive internet player. First I dismissed it but now i am thinking that I may have to try this approach (mentally I will have to accept a higher variance).
What do you think?
Early On Strategy- My goal, really, in tournaments is to double up or triple up in the first couple of levels to have more chips than anyone else so that I have a distinct advantage starting off. This is kind of my mindset, and I know that it’s probably not a widely accepted theory, but I think it gives me a huge edge to become the chip leader to get tons of chips to be able to knock out the smaller stacks as they become desperate and the blinds go up. And I can just keep chipping up, chipping up, chipping up, and putting myself in good shape. And then, down the road, when I have 20K and the other guy has 5K or 6K, I can lose that big race, A-K to queens, and still be in the tournament with a ton of chips. A lot of guys, if they play a lot tighter and only play their cards, they get into a big race where both players have 5K and they get knocked out because of losing a coin flip. My style has very high variance for me to be able to accumulate the chips, but once I get the chips, it actually reduces my variance down the road in the tournament.
What do you think?
Early On Strategy- My goal, really, in tournaments is to double up or triple up in the first couple of levels to have more chips than anyone else so that I have a distinct advantage starting off. This is kind of my mindset, and I know that it’s probably not a widely accepted theory, but I think it gives me a huge edge to become the chip leader to get tons of chips to be able to knock out the smaller stacks as they become desperate and the blinds go up. And I can just keep chipping up, chipping up, chipping up, and putting myself in good shape. And then, down the road, when I have 20K and the other guy has 5K or 6K, I can lose that big race, A-K to queens, and still be in the tournament with a ton of chips. A lot of guys, if they play a lot tighter and only play their cards, they get into a big race where both players have 5K and they get knocked out because of losing a coin flip. My style has very high variance for me to be able to accumulate the chips, but once I get the chips, it actually reduces my variance down the road in the tournament.