Re: Isolating with the Gigabet Dilemma (long)
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The key question I’d have is, ‘how do you figure out whether you are paying too much to create these situations”?
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you will know, trust me. if you play for any amount of time at all, you will easily be able recognize when you need to stop dusting your chips off, and start playing as if they mean something.
You have to realize that the example I created showed the very best situation possible; IMO. What this situation can do is show you #1. If you see a shortstack push, you will be able to analyze whether it is worth the risk to isolate the stack, based on how much your position improves, and sometimes, your position declines, because a short stack moves. This ten handed example is an example of something that I strive for, and when i am able successfully create the situation, it is usually 4 or 5 handed. I am pretty certain that I have never intentionally moved enough chips around to change the position of several stacks to get an optimal position in a 9 or 10 handed field.
Some of the tactics required take a long time to complete, once set into motion. The idea is to have a specific plan that you are following, if you start 10 handed play, with specific goals in mind, by the time you get to 5 handed play, you may have accomplished enough to set up a perfect 4 handed game, but not 5 handed, cause the shortest stack is in the wrong place.
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