re: Poker & Chip leader left MTT
As I understand it, the question is, if it should change our strategy, that someone is sitting out on the final table with a 22BB stack, when we have a similar stack. And as far as overall strategy goes, I will say no. If we dont play, because we want him to blind out, we will also blind our ourselfes, so thats definitely not an option. There is also the risk, he might suddenly return, even after hours of absense.
However when someone is sitting out, it does obviously influenze, how we play a hand, since there is now one less player sitting between us and the chips in the middle. Say for instance they are on our direct left, and we are in small blind seat. Then we can definitly defend more by calling, because we know, big blind is always going to fold. After the flop though we are just playing poker, and its like any other hand.
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