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Originally Posted by Jkpoker10
This post is lol. Short stack strat is mitigated in the main and milly maker? Don’t get me wrong, people tend to get short in all tournaments..... just at a different time scale based on how they run and the blind time levels etc. short stack strat is still a big part of these mtts with longer levels and bigger starting stacks. Even though they come later, it’s kinda stupid to say short stack strat doesn’t matter when people tend to have shallower stacks at the most important stages of an mtt.
Well, the strawman you made out of my post is LOL anyway.
Short stack strat importance IS mitigated in super deep and slow tourneys. Mitigated doesn't mean that it "doesn't matter", obviously that's ridiculous.
At the start of Day 2 in the Main, a starting stack is still 100 BB deep with 2 hour levels. Even at the final table of the Main, average stacks are above 50 BB. Obviously you can get set over set 8 minutes in and be down to 5 big blinds, and you need to know short stack strat, I never said otherwise.
My point is that if you have two players: One has the push/fold charts memorized and will never make a preflop error under 15 BB deep, but is mediocre on flop, turn and river, and the other is a cash game crusher who makes excellent flop, turn, and river decisions but hasn't studied preflop charts.
If you told me I had to back one of those players in the Main, I'm taking the second one every time. On top of the importance of the later streets in deep slow tournaments, it will be much easier for the second player to improve to "good" at preflop push/fold than for the first to improve to "good" at flop/turn/river decisions.
And when they got headsup last year, they were around 100 BB deep. I would MUCH rather have flop/turn/river skills playing headsup 100 BB deep for millions, than preflop charts memorized.