[MTUCache]

[ QUOTE ]
you patiently wait for cards for the first 60-90 minutes, you don't hit any and all of a sudden your stack is 12 times the circuit and the blinds are about to go up again.

[/ QUOTE ]

Exactly... that's been my problem for the last three months at my monthly game.

I play tight, and make it to the final table, but with hardly any chips. Meanwhile, a couple of complete donkeys have gigantic stacks, just because they sucked out a couple of all-ins that they were underdogs in. Then, the blinds go up, and I'm left making a desperate move.

Of course, now that I've established my reputation as a good, tight player among the group, it's going to be a lot easier for my all-ins to be scary when I'm doing it with a decent stack. Much scarier than me raising a 1/3 of my stack, or a 1/2 of my stack. It's hard to get over that psychological hurdle of committing yourself to that hand, especially when you are pre-flop or don't have much information, but it's so much better than crippling your stack.