[JohnG]

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To clarify, were you mid-stakes pros already trying to manipulate the pot so that the ratios (smallest stack to pre-flop pot size) were in the range you wanted?

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Can't speak for anyone else, but it's always been one of the competing factors I consider in weighing up the play of a hand.

Any hand I find difficult at the table is usually related to the ratios involved. My post play analysis will examine other approaches relating to ratios to see if I can fix the problem there. i.e. I had trouble with AJ in the SB v BB one time on some stack size, and the solution was to alter the post flop ratios by either limping preflop or if I did raise, betting more on the flop than I actually bet at the time. Of course, if I was concentrating better, I would have spotted it at the time.