Who starts playing wrong when they get too many chips?

Jardel Barros · May 4, 2022

I don't know if it happens to anyone else, but I start to get out of strategy when I get too many chips. I need to correct this mindset.

Mauricio Perrotta · May 4, 2022

I usually play too tight and with good cards in those circumstances!!
I may lose incredible hands against a bad beat but I'm not one to give chips away like water between my fingers going into plays I shouldn't.
Maybe you should take a few minutes when you see that this is starting to happen to you, go to the bathroom or smoke a cigarette, I don't know.
hope you can fix it

Comboss599 · May 4, 2022

Well it's happen very rarely when i'm a chipleader or something like that but when it happen i try to wait for my chance to get more chips. Of course when you have a lot of chips many players change tactic and play more offensive, like raise every hand etc. As i observe this tactics very often towards to complete defeat but there is a situation that they achieve a much better stack.

pavel1111111 · May 4, 2022

I guess almost everyone makes this mistake

, and those who somehow manage to recover end up winning the tournament or at least making the final table.

INISHTE · May 5, 2022

Hi Friend.

Well, the truth is that I've become very careful when I'm in that position, I learned to be aggressive, but a bad streak hits me and forces me to calm down, for nothing else yesterday I couldn't collect in a tournament, being in middle position, I bet with 99, the one to my left raised and the one to his left 3bet, I suspected they had stronger hands than mine and I was right (they had AK and KK) and even though I had 3 times their chips of the 2, I folded, it hurt me to see that 99 came out at the table, I didn't have a very good section, that's why I was forced to fold.

IADaveMark · May 5, 2022

Mentally, the approach should be one where you are capable of ejecting. Sure, see some flops, but be prepared to fold out if it isn't there for you.

In mid-tournament stages, for example, 40bb is going to be a solid stack. Getting in pre for 2.5 is one thing. Sure, if you hit the flop, etc., you could take down a 10bb pot. However, if you play it out and lose, you could drop 10bb as well... and that's 25% of your stack. But folding out those 2.5bb when you do not hit, only costs you those 2.5bb. You can do that 4 times before you lose that 25% of your 40. And one of those hands might be one where you add on the 10bb.

One mantra I have used to match this is "trickle down; jump up."

So you don't have to tighten up horribly pre-flop. But again, be prepared to eject if you don't hit. Don't speculate, don't wish, don't c-bet into 5 people with complete air. Just give yourself opportunities and take advantage when they come.

steve01991 · May 5, 2022

i tend to get too aggressive when i have a huge stack, sometimes it works out though, so i guess i have to be more selective on the hands i push with.

Cooking · May 5, 2022

I usually don't change too much the way I play even when I'm with a big stack. I only try to steal more blinds, specially in the bubble time.

mssmotilda · May 5, 2022

IADaveMark said:
Mentally, the approach should be one where you are capable of ejecting. Sure, see some flops, but be prepared to fold out if it isn't there for you.

In mid-tournament stages, for example, 40bb is going to be a solid stack. Getting in pre for 2.5 is one thing. Sure, if you hit the flop, etc., you could take down a 10bb pot. However, if you play it out and lose, you could drop 10bb as well... and that's 25% of your stack. But folding out those 2.5bb when you do not hit, only costs you those 2.5bb. You can do that 4 times before you lose that 25% of your 40. And one of those hands might be one where you add on the 10bb.

One mantra I have used to match this is "trickle down; jump up."

So you don't have to tighten up horribly pre-flop. But again, be prepared to eject if you don't hit. Don't speculate, don't wish, don't c-bet into 5 people with complete air. Just give yourself opportunities and take advantage when they come.

Good advice, and interesting to meet someone, who lives in Omaha and doesn't play Omaha!

COMIRRR · May 6, 2022

That's how the man is when he sees himself upstairs, he has a place to scatter, he can afford it again and then he cries for his stupidity and tries to start over.

EmptyHouse · May 7, 2022

With a big stack, it's only natural to want to attack because there is nothing to threaten your tournament survival while your opponents have to worry about their chips. However, you should not let this feeling blind you. Although a big stack gives us a lot of opportunities, we have to play with caution in order to keep it.

moularaki · May 7, 2022

for me when i have a lot of chips i play more hands and more aggressif
but it's not the best strategy, many times i loose all of them

Risto234 · May 7, 2022

Nah luckily (?) i dont need "too many chips" to do that ^

AzazeL0707 · May 8, 2022

Jardel Barros said:
I don't know if it happens to anyone else, but I start to get out of strategy when I get too many chips. I need to correct this mindset.

Yea me too i get cocky when I’m like top 10 in a tournament 😅

Skot_Gy · May 8, 2022

Yes, i too tend to get looser.
It can pay off if you win 2-3 more big pots, but also can hurt your stack if you get some bad beats.

Overall, i must try to have more selfcontrol and discipline in this area.

dzsire · May 10, 2022

I’d rather say it’s easier to get into parties with more chips than to have to fight to stay in the last places. This can open up more faulty games than if you were playing tight.

mina271 · May 10, 2022

I know that all too well in the past, unfortunately lol. In any case, it used to be less today. I used to be told that if I was the chip leader, I should exert more pressure and if I tried to do that, it always went haywire. I was always feeding the smaller stacks and being the chip leader was quickly done lol. Today I continue to play as before and only pay attention to my stack if I have too little, i.e. have a small stack myself. If I have more I don't care so much. Of course there is also a difference whether it's still early in the tournament or whether it's later and you're already close to the itm or maybe even to the final table. Of course you can also put pressure on people as a big stack, but you should also pay attention to which cards you play with and against which opponents

ADRI7HO · May 10, 2022

If I have too many chips it is because the winning hands are coming. That’s when I get on the wave and I’m in a lot of hands.
The trouble usually starts when the wave starts to take me down, because that’s when I want to get my chips back even more and that’s when the bad decisions come.
The right game would be (if the good series stops) to sit on the chips and only play ABC poker with good cards...

ppartizan2 · May 10, 2022

I dont really play any differnetly.Definently play a bit wider ranges,but if i lose about 20 BB i probably cool down a bit.

StepUp · May 10, 2022

nothing wrong about it as most players do not have any clue about how to play a deep stack of over 200big blinds and we find ourselves playing wider ranges and making huge amount of mistakes however an experienced play will know when to make pressure and when to gets out of the line to win every single pot whatever his holdings.

CaptainMooti · May 10, 2022

Ah, yes. Loosey goosey awakens in me as well, start playing some unsuited one gappers and such from early position, hoping for that stroke of luck.
Discipline is the key and I am learning how to stay in control of it. Reality checks are good way of doing it.
Also it is quite difficult to learn to correct bet sizing for playing draws and reraising with top pair or two.
Best you can do - keep learning and stay aware of your actions!

hilary antonik filho · May 10, 2022

This rarely happens to me when I have a lot of chips, I don't usually distribute chips for nothing, I try to have better control, be patient, observe my opponents more and take advantage of the best hands, remember, our goal is to enter the bubble and reach the final table

Gritz18 · May 10, 2022

Jardel Barros said:
I don't know if it happens to anyone else, but I start to get out of strategy when I get too many chips. I need to correct this mindset.

Generally this is the mentality of the recreational player the more chips they have the more hands they play. We see this a lot in freeroll tournaments, most of the time these players don't even make it halfway through the tournament. Good luck at the tables everyone.

pocketace222 · May 10, 2022

Been guilty forsure but it doesn't happen often. I will take more chances when I believe I'm ahead, then I'm willing to really put in some chips and I'm right more than wrong. Where it hurts is when you wrong a few times in a row and then your short stacked feeling like your playing bad

77ecos · May 11, 2022

It has happened to me, it even continues to happen to me but I am already working on it, I did not differentiate between a bounty tournament or a normal one, passive, aggressive, position, thousands of details, I have gone through all that but already in the studio I have found the way to modify and polish my game

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