** WSOP ME, $10,000 NLHE, Day 6, Sun., July 15**

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We saw this effect last year, people with VERY deep stacks relative to the blinds (30 BB +) getting all in preflop with marginal type hands (AJo, 66, etc.)



My attempts at explaining this:

1. Alot of these players have most of their tournament experience on the internet and thus are very used to shoving all in preflop towards the later stages, where the blinds are typically high compared to the stakes. Thus this is really the only way they know "how" to play this stage.

2. They may be not paying enough attention to the blind size but rather the stack sizes of the bigger stacks. If you have 1 mil in chips and there are stacks of 7 mil around you, you may feel shortstacked, regardless of what the blinds are, thus they feel the need for their shortstack game.

3. Alot of them are just idiots?

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I vote for #3.

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On the internet, it is always easy to see the relationship between stack sizes and blinds.

With the Harrahs orange chip debacle, coupled with the live pressure of the ME, this stack versus blind relationship is not only confusing but can apparently lead to poor bet sizing.