Dyno_Don

When playing against a big chip stack, be very cautious. It doesn't matter if you have a few more chips or a few thousand extra chips over your opponent, he/she can really make a dent in your game.

I played in a play money No Limit Omaha Hi/Lo game yesturday. Buy in was 200 + 15, 2000 starting chips, and 1163 players.

At the second break I had just won an all-in hand putting me in the top 5 among the chip leaders. This made things a bit easier for me, knowing I would keep my status at least to the top two tables. So, I went to get another cup of coffee and relaxed a bit waiting for the break to be over, and decided to play a 6 player No Limit Hold'em sit and go game.

The sit and go game was down to 4 players by the time the tourney started again. I did well in the tourney, focusing on my sit and go hands more frequently until there were just three of us left. I couldn't catch a hand at all, and one player sat-out with 1000 chips less than I, so I decided to sit out as well until the sitting out player ran out of chips before playing again.

Now concentrating on the Omaha tourney, I over-played a hand and lost about a quarter of my chip stack. But a few hands later quickly recovered by gaining even more chips to my stack.

To make a long story short; (I won the sit and go) I had the two down cards and three showing, two of them 6's. I'm playing against an agressive player who has been winning most of the hands and buying the pot, he had nearly the same amount of chips with J's showing.

I had caught two pair 9's 6's with my 5 cards so I went all-in with them. My opponent caught a J on his last card taking nearly all of my chips.
I was out in 28th place a few hands later.

Before I made the all-in call, especially in Omaha, I should have had at least a strait or flush before pushing in. Instead of putting this agressive player in his place, I pushed myself out of the race to the final table.

So, be careful when going up against big stacks; even when they get lucky you may lose your chance to the final goal towards winning a larger piece of the prize pool in the end.

donktheclown

Middle stacks are always the best choice to attack.. lower stacks have nothing to lose so they will often reraise all-in, while big stacks can get lucky and eliminate you.

I still raise/reraise big stacks that keep trying to see the flop cheaply, but get eliminated often due to it..