I Want To Play a Big Stack For Once

[MickeyWins]

I have no problem playing a short stack in tourneys.I have tons of experience.
I play too tight...and tend to "bounce along the bottom"..with a short stack.
I am looking for advice on how to acquire a big stack...and perhaps ..go through the entire tourney with a big stack.
playing a short stack is no fun...and wears on you .
how does one get a big stack? and keep it?

[ymu]

Maximise your variance, especially early on. As long as you can't be sure that it's -cEV take any gamble offered. If the cards go your way, you build a big stack. If not, you donk out and try the same thing again next time knowing that the variance is as likely to be positive as negative and when it goes your way you have a chance to go deep.

[omaha]

Hate to say it, but it boils down to two main things.

1) knowing how to play poker significantly better than your opponents
ii) getting lucky.

I think number two is the overriding factor. THink about it, if there is a 1000 person tourney, and all are equal, and everyone plays a hundred hands, there will be a bell curve of everyones stacks, and the only factor is lady luck!

I only truly understood this when i was a massive chip leader in a 180 once, treble the next person. But, i had AA and KK and a couple of sets early on, and, truly didnt need to play very well at all.

I was always jealous of those chip leaders, but always knew that some were lucky. But the short term luck factor is HUGE, and you only realise just how much when you get to surf that lucky wave for a couple of hours!

[helgefyll]

I reccomend reading this thread:
http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com/...te_id/1#import