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Top players have advantage in deep-stack games

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Top players have advantage in deep-stack games

by Daniel Negreanu | Special to The Grand Rapids Press
Tuesday September 09, 2008, 9:00 AM

Regular readers of this column know I am a proponent of small ball poker, which is characterized by low pre-flop raises and restrained betting on the flop.

In small ball poker, the investment before the flop is minimal compared to the size of the average chipstack.

Say, for example, that you have 10,000 in chips with the blinds at 100-200. A pre-flop raise to 500 is the right size for small ball poker, representing a mere 5 percent of your stack and 2 1/2 times the big blind.

Sure, you could raise more, but I generally prefer to risk fewer chips on speculative hands before the flop.

In a deep-stack cash game, however, that type of bet just wouldn't be big enough to have any chance at stealing blinds and antes.

Let's take a look at GSN's "High Stakes Poker," where play starts with $300-$600
blinds plus a $100 ante. In this deep-stack
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