How much of an advantage is it to have a large stack at NL ring games?
I was recently playing at a NL 50 max buy in table and had worked my stack up to around $250. The player with the second most money only had $60. I had an errand to run so I had to give up my spot at the table. Should I have stayed at the table and continued playing for a bunch more hours? How much of an advantage is it to have the entire table outstacked by so much? What strategies can I apply when I get in this situation again? Thanks for any help!
in a cash game, the advantage is completely psychological and monetary…someone in a game that small probably doesn’t have a whole lot of money to throw around, and they know in their mind that whenever they play a pot with you, they could get broke, so they’ll play carefully against you and go out of their way to stay out of your pots…therefore, you’ll want to be very aggressive and try to push the table around, and if you find it doesn’t work, then you can shift back to your normal game and have the added advantage of your opponents having seen you play a much looser game than normal…however, in bigger cash games that advantage is diminished significantly because most players have more money and won’t be afraid to get broke against you, and won’t be intimidated so easily
in tournaments, you have the same advantages but you can really exploit them better because of the fear of getting busted…you can use the chip advantage you have to gamble more and play more aggressively and try to gain more chips and increase your advantage
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