Deep Stacked Poker in cash or tournament

Deep Stacked Poker in cash games is its own beast to conquer and can be seen in different views. Sometimes players who have very deep stacks have been sitting at a table for hours or they have bought in for the full poker bonus amount and doubled through. If you have just doubled through in a cash game, or won a big hand, you should be more cautious with your money. Most of the time when players see a very deep stack at a table they will not want to mess around in pots with them. A good deal of the time if they attack your stack they have a good enough hand to attack it. Some times as a big stack you can play draws more often than you would if you had a shorter stack. When you start to hit these draws and get paid off for them you can begin to run over a table. The best feeling is sitting at a table with three or four hundred big blinds when most of the others have one hundred blinds, and a dream of having your stack. When you are feeling more comfortable about having a lot of money in front of you it can improve your chances of winning and your reads. If you try and lock up your money when you get to 400 big blinds you might as well just leave the table. When you start to read your opponents and the table better you can start to pick up pots without having hands. If you’re perceived as having a wild style and a lot of aggression you can also get more money for big hands. You can pick up pots with nothing when reading opponents well, and get value from them when you do have it.

People will be cautious of your stack, but they will also be looking at you trying to pick off betting patterns or tells. You should be doing the same. If you can put opponents on hands then you can make more correct gambles than not. You don’t want to be putting your money in with middle pair and a gut shot straight draw because if you start doing that your stack will dwindle. But, if you do manage to hit top pair and an open ended straight draw on a lower flop with an 89, why not gamble with it? If you can zone your opponents range to be QQ or better then it is almost even money. You have a lot of outs, and if you are the one that says all-in you may get a fold sometimes. When you can apply pressure with hands that can get there as a big stack; you are playing good poker. If your opponent does make the call you can still draw out on them, and you are not as far behind as it may look. If you start to run good you can run over a table and make your stack even deeper.