Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 10,853
Not a huge tournament guy here, but I think one of my weaknesses is thinking 'long term' way too soon and peaking over at average stack too much. At least until you start to approach the money bubble, each tournament hand needs to be it's own 'tournament'. Position, stack sizes in BB, images, dead money all come into consideration.
If it's still 100/200 why are you playing 100BB pots on a draw? Is that how you got to 300BB in the first place? Probably not. Sure, in a 20 minute Turbo you need to be aware of the structure, but as stated above you shouldn't force your way into situations unless your stack fits the spot.
If you're comfortable playing 20BB and below then don't stress about staying at 60BB. You want the other guy overvaluing their holding and undervaluing their stack by overplaying the spot.
If you win 12k the first hand how valuable are they? The value is in knowing that you ARE NOT the effective stack if you get into a great (not good) spot where the effective stack may actually come into play. Otherwise don't tax your stack just because 'it's there' .. let the other guy open for 7bb instead of 3.5 or whatever the going rate should be.
'Win the war, not every battle' GL