Re: Help with playing a big stack very early in a tourney.
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Don't a lot of those adjustments fail to apply in your average tournament? Even if you, say, triple up to 225 BB in the first level, you're still no deeper than the next biggest stack at the table. If that's just 90 BB, the other 135 are really nothing more than padding against a bad beat, right? And by the time other stacks have caught up to you, the blind levels will likely have caught up as well, and you're no longer terribly deep.
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This is true if the table is playing tight, but if it's loose u can get in more pots (and thus get paid off when u hit.) You can do this with an avg stack as well, but this style does take a toll on a normal stack if you don't make a hand or two. If you splash around (loose pre/tight post) the 1st two levels and don't double-up, you go into level 3 with only 20BBs, which is a tough stack to play against loose players. With the big stack, u still will get paid off with the same frequency, but the impact (of not winning big pots) on your stack's playability will be negligible.
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