Re: Isolating with the Gigabet Dilemma (long)
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Based upon that, I would think that as chip leader in Seat 1, the best position for #2 is directly opposite me in Seat 5 or 6 with #3 and #4 to his immediate left and immediate right.
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This setup only guarantees that you will probably make it in the top 5 with no risk. What will happen here is the other stacks are going to be feasting on those small stacks directly accross from you, and they will absorb them. Or, if they aren't aggressive enough, because they just never get a holding that is good enough to raise through 3 or 4 short stacks(cause it is much more likely to get called, being that there are three shorties grouped together, and all of them need to double up)then the short stacks will be raising in the direction of the second largest stack, which if he takes a shot at them, which there is no reason he shouldn't, with just about any two cards, you will not be the big stack anymore.
The premise behind the shortest stacks being to your immediate left is that your presence protects them from anyone stealing from them, except for you. You say that you want to make certain that a few players get knocked out, before you worry about winning(or at least you implied that). If you start with this set up, in a perfect world, with no cards being random, the busts would look like this.
Seat 3 busts seat 2......seat 4 busts seat 3....seat 5 busts seat 4....seat 6 busts seat 5 and on and on.
because each stack has the ability to only put pressure on a stack that actually needs the chips, that stack is then, the most likely to bust the shortest stack. With you there to protect the small stacks from the other larger stacks on your right, you allow the shortest stack enough time to steal against the next shortes stack to the point where the next shortest stack, is either going to have to call with something marginal, or start stealing from the stack directly in front of it, and it continues like that, until it gets to a point where someone is eventually forced to steal from you, the big stack, but....since you are the only one that cannot go broke, and can bust everyone, the only stacks that should have no real fear raising you, are stacks #2 and #3, the two furthest away from you, when you have a blind.
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