Tournament Play
How rising blinds rewrite every deep-stacked instinct.
A tournament stack is not money in the ordinary sense: it cannot be reloaded, and its value relative to the blinds falls on a schedule regardless of how the cards run. This group covers what changes when a stack drops from a hundred big blinds to forty to fifteen, why the correct play with the same hand can invert across those depths, and why survival has an explicit value in a payout structure that it never has in a cash game.
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Week 6 of 7
Short stack push-or-fold play
Below about fifteen big blinds the decision tree collapses to two branches, and that simplification is the whole advantage.
7 min
