How do you play from a very large stack early??

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When you build a big stack early in a tournament and it has a looong late registration, do you continue to play the same staarting hands or do you open your range??
 
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I will be carefully and paly only with big hands.Because on my opinion all tournament has an purpose and that is that all players will increase gradually the stack of their chips.And u can not win and win and win
 
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Carefully and Safe moves only in Situations like this
 
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When you build a big stack early in a tournament and it has a looong late registration, do you continue to play the same staarting hands or do you open your range??


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What is your normal range?
What would you want to add to that?

Example
Normal AK-A10 A5 Adjusted All Ax
Would this not put you in more spots with kicker trouble?
Do we want to use our chips that way?

With a big stack we want to use opportunities to force our villains to fold or we can slow play or trap more as suck outs mean so little.

When using pressure to get folds our hands do not matter.
We are looking for V's that will fold to protect their stack. If a fit or fold player raises and we can 3 bet isolate in position we do so without looking at our cards.
If 4 bet easy fold if called we barrel flop to get that 60% of the time fold.

We also can call weak loose players in position and try to hit something big.
So we may play all Ax Kx some Qx suited in multiway pots.

Hope this helps
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I wish I had the opportunity to play from a big stack early. I keep getting outdrawn early and then needing to either go all in or fold. It makes it very frustrating and boring. Don’t get to play the flops.
 
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stay aggressive..

Tourney with long late registration, even if you build a large stack early, if you play too passively, the blinds will sneak up on you.
If you know your game is tight-aggressive, try to lean on the aggressive a little more than usual.
If your game is aggressive, stick with it, you will play better, being in your normal risk tolerance. Any tourney, no fault losing aggressively, going out on your shield, fighting. to the end
 
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Need to be strong and intelligent, but if comes high cards in my hands, its all-in
 
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In such cases, I begin to play more confidently, more often bluffing and more often stealing blinds. I do not change the range, I always have the same tight-aggressive style of play. Several times I tried to change my range when I had a big stack at the beginning of the tournament and not once did I get money, so I decided to always play the same, regardless of the size of the stack and the stage of the tournament.
 
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When you build a big stack early in a tournament and it has a looong late registration, do you continue to play the same staarting hands or do you open your range??
Your main goal, as the owner of a large stack, should be to attack opponents whose options in the fight against you are limited. If a player with an impressive stack is seated at your table, you should not get involved in a “fight” with him, as this can lead to the most sad consequences. A bank with the participation of owners of large stacks can quickly reach huge sizes. The player who can cause serious damage to your "empire", obviously should not be the first in the list of potential objects of your pressure, pressure and possible bluffs.Despite all of the above, you should not avoid confrontation with other large stacks at all costs, because your opponents will quickly understand this and begin to put pressure on you. To fight back, better wait for situations in which you have good hands.Pay attention to situations when short stacks are in the blinds. Regardless of your cards, raising often allows you to pick up a pot already preflop. The choice of owners of short stacks is very limited - as a rule, they hope to get a strong hand with which you can go all-in and double. Needless to say, most often this does not happen, which means you can take advantage of this situation.
 
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Personnaly i play a lot of hands preflop to see the flop.
And i play very safe on the flop turn and river.
My goal is to have a good draw or a max hand.
 
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I open or narrow my range according to the villains I'm facing and not according to the size of my stack.
 
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When you build a big stack early in a tournament and it has a looong late registration, do you continue to play the same staarting hands or do you open your range??

i flat call more with a more open range. But i still keep position of play seriously.
 
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Thank U 4 Posting

What is your normal range?
What would you want to add to that?

Example
Normal AK-A10 A5 Adjusted All Ax
Would this not put you in more spots with kicker trouble?
Do we want to use our chips that way?

With a big stack we want to use opportunities to force our villains to fold or we can slow play or trap more as suck outs mean so little.

When using pressure to get folds our hands do not matter.
We are looking for V's that will fold to protect their stack. If a fit or fold player raises and we can 3 bet isolate in position we do so without looking at our cards.
If 4 bet easy fold if called we barrel flop to get that 60% of the time fold.

We also can call weak loose players in position and try to hit something big.
So we may play all Ax Kx some Qx suited in multiway pots.

Hope this helps
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Great answer thank you!!:D
 
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Your main goal, as the owner of a large stack, should be to attack opponents whose options in the fight against you are limited. If a player with an impressive stack is seated at your table, you should not get involved in a “fight” with him, as this can lead to the most sad consequences. A bank with the participation of owners of large stacks can quickly reach huge sizes. The player who can cause serious damage to your "empire", obviously should not be the first in the list of potential objects of your pressure, pressure and possible bluffs.Despite all of the above, you should not avoid confrontation with other large stacks at all costs, because your opponents will quickly understand this and begin to put pressure on you. To fight back, better wait for situations in which you have good hands.Pay attention to situations when short stacks are in the blinds. Regardless of your cards, raising often allows you to pick up a pot already preflop. The choice of owners of short stacks is very limited - as a rule, they hope to get a strong hand with which you can go all-in and double. Needless to say, most often this does not happen, which means you can take advantage of this situation.


All of this sounds like good advice. Thank you
 
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Depends how my cards are falling but if I'm not hitting anymore assuming I was since I"m big stacked I'm gonna tighten up and protect my chips. Maybe it's from lack of talent (I am still learning) but when I start throwing weight around without cards to back it up it might work for a bit but usually end up hurting my stack more than helping it.
 
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What changes for me is stealing blinds more often from around the dealer position to 2 spots before.
I'm always trying to make my plays vs the smaller stacks and be wary not to get involved in the same hand with a stack similar or higher than mine, that could felt me. Pretty much I'm aware what's around avg stack at this time, and I want to play in the hands that are vs people that are below avg.
I do call small all in bets more often with the larger stack because I know I'm not losing more than that stack and I have a chance to knock somebody out. (note still playing solid hands I'm not playing 24suited) More the 78suited and better starting hands.
Sometimes, I just like to minimum raise preflop just to get the action going where 4 or 5 players call and clearly whoever happens to win after the flop takes a nice pot, but 3-5players will have lost at least 2blinds and maybe more. I always hope to see players eliminated, sometimes it takes a little push. Too many times people try slow playing QQ-AAs and a lower stack with say 77 gets where an allin or fold approach is needed with my min. raise. They make the allin, the player/s holding QQ-AA isolates and pushes as well, I'm out of the hand smiling. Gotcha.
 
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