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Rational Madman
Legend
Platinum Level
I know that bigger stack is better, but I think that people are often too afraid of being short-stacked thus they make decisions when nearing short-stack to shove or fold rather than risk losing a bit.
As a fan of a looser-than-most-sharks playstyle that still is on the tight side I like to lose chips < yes you read that right. If you keep losing up to 9 M-zone and just keep losing, it is totally fine as long as it was many losses rather than a big one as that doesn't help you at all. You see when you play in a way that's willing to become short stacked gradually and coolered over and over if the bets stay small, people learn that you are not going to just fold and it SUBCONSCIOUSLY and ALSO HUD-OBJECTIVELY will mean that not only do people bluff you much rarer but also means that people will more likely check rivers with a semi good hand as they are sure you'd call both with better or worse and are confused where on Earth you stand strength-wise.
My playstyle works MAJORITY OF TIMES and I will begin to prove it with progress graphs later on (in a month or so when I am truly efficient).
You need to understand that even being in 1 or 2 M-zone is not the end of the world. You just wait for semi-good hand and all-in. If you make a remote comeback, your table image is far far stronger than before. If a LAG bully or many donks keep overbetting into you despite this table image that is still fine, you play tight while they are around no problem but if people aren't being so ready to hand you chips, you need to loosen them up by being looser yourself.
I have a very differing view to most tournametn strategists. I believe that you should constantly be wavering between tight and loose, agg and pass. You should of course be rigid in that the bigger the pot bigger your bet or vice versa because pot odds are about making the most out of a high risk scenario where you ended up on upper end but other than pot odds, no concept should be rigid in your play.
When you get bigstacked why should you suddenly become LAG? I think that's stupid. Of course steal blinds if their FST is very high ( FST = fold to steal stat, Jivaro HUD has idk if others do) anyway, if they often fold preflop to raises while in blinds go ahead and steal it. On the other hand, you are bigstacked, RIDE THE TOURNAMENT WAVE, SURF THAT SH** YOU ARE BIGSTACKED... Why do people feel the need when they are big to get bigger, it is so suboptimal until the latter half of the mid-game where you need to start preparing your stack for the high swing lategame.
You should be MOST TIGHT WHEN YOU ARE BIG... I just can't understand why this is a concept said the opposite.
You go all-in with semi decent hand if excruciatingly low and only enter hands you really should be entering until you are no longer the big stack but a medium one again... Simple concept really.
Do what you want, this is just my advice: Don't fear being the small stack you can be desperate as you want then; only feel fear when you have a stack so good you wouldn't want to lose it.
As a fan of a looser-than-most-sharks playstyle that still is on the tight side I like to lose chips < yes you read that right. If you keep losing up to 9 M-zone and just keep losing, it is totally fine as long as it was many losses rather than a big one as that doesn't help you at all. You see when you play in a way that's willing to become short stacked gradually and coolered over and over if the bets stay small, people learn that you are not going to just fold and it SUBCONSCIOUSLY and ALSO HUD-OBJECTIVELY will mean that not only do people bluff you much rarer but also means that people will more likely check rivers with a semi good hand as they are sure you'd call both with better or worse and are confused where on Earth you stand strength-wise.
My playstyle works MAJORITY OF TIMES and I will begin to prove it with progress graphs later on (in a month or so when I am truly efficient).
You need to understand that even being in 1 or 2 M-zone is not the end of the world. You just wait for semi-good hand and all-in. If you make a remote comeback, your table image is far far stronger than before. If a LAG bully or many donks keep overbetting into you despite this table image that is still fine, you play tight while they are around no problem but if people aren't being so ready to hand you chips, you need to loosen them up by being looser yourself.
I have a very differing view to most tournametn strategists. I believe that you should constantly be wavering between tight and loose, agg and pass. You should of course be rigid in that the bigger the pot bigger your bet or vice versa because pot odds are about making the most out of a high risk scenario where you ended up on upper end but other than pot odds, no concept should be rigid in your play.
When you get bigstacked why should you suddenly become LAG? I think that's stupid. Of course steal blinds if their FST is very high ( FST = fold to steal stat, Jivaro HUD has idk if others do) anyway, if they often fold preflop to raises while in blinds go ahead and steal it. On the other hand, you are bigstacked, RIDE THE TOURNAMENT WAVE, SURF THAT SH** YOU ARE BIGSTACKED... Why do people feel the need when they are big to get bigger, it is so suboptimal until the latter half of the mid-game where you need to start preparing your stack for the high swing lategame.
You should be MOST TIGHT WHEN YOU ARE BIG... I just can't understand why this is a concept said the opposite.
You go all-in with semi decent hand if excruciatingly low and only enter hands you really should be entering until you are no longer the big stack but a medium one again... Simple concept really.
Do what you want, this is just my advice: Don't fear being the small stack you can be desperate as you want then; only feel fear when you have a stack so good you wouldn't want to lose it.