During a poker tournament, your stack will almost always go through several variations. Sometimes you will be very deep, sometimes you will be short. Your survival in the tournament depends on how well you work with each type of stack, so in this article I will briefly talk about my opinion on strategies according to the stack.
Between 3 and 10BB (Short stack):
We are in a more delicate situation, our stack is no longer enough to resteal the raiser, since we will be called most of the time. At this point, the best strategy is to wait for a reasonably good hand with good equity to go all-in. With this stack, I have seen players make big mistakes, and this will affect your ROI at the end of the month. Be patient and don't go all-in with mediocre hands, I have been left with 2 or 3BBs several times and won the tournament.
Between 12 and 20BB (Medium Stack):
We are not in a bad situation, but we are not in a good situation either. This stack is perfect for restealing. We need to analyze the opponent who is raising, see how he is playing, the % of times he raises and steals and apply a resteal when the factors are on your side. You do not need a strong hand when the opponent is playing very aggressively, because the difference between the range he is raising and the range he will call your all-in is so big that sometimes shoving any two will be +ev.
Between 20 and 30BB (Medium Stack):
Now we have a slightly more relaxed stack to work with. We still can't perform all types of maneuvers, but we already have room for greater playability. With this stack, we can raise more in position, we can see some flops and we can even make some 3-bets or 4-bets light. Your strategy here is to try to be aggressive against weak players, play more post-flops against those who don't know how to defend themselves very well.
30BB or more (Deep Stack):
We have a very comfortable stack, we can make any kind of play with this stack. Do you want to play tight? Do you want to play loose? Do whatever you want, your stack allows it. I don't see any reason to play very tight with stacks of 40 or 50BBs, because the hands that will fold you with this stack will almost never be AA, KK or AK, but rather 68s, TJs and other connected hands. Normally with this stack you put yourself in a very bad situation when, for example, you raise AA, get called and on the 975 flop you Cbet and your opponent raises you, but with 78s you Cbet on the AK2 flop, if your opponent shows any resistance you just hang up the hand and only lose the value of the Cbet. Remember that with deep stacks we should work much more post-flop than pre-flop.
The basis for playing tournaments is knowing how to work your stack, study this a lot.
That's all for today, big hug!
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