June
2010
Stagnation
In poker online games, chip stacks are a lot like a pet-you need to feed it and take care of it, or it will diminish and eventually die. I’ve spent many poker online tournaments wondering what the heck happened to my stack, when after a dry period I’ve found that the towers in front of me have turned into a few weak piles of small-denominational chips. Turns out, folding hand after hand isn’t the best way to keep your stack strong-it’s just a good way to blind out and go just about insane with boredom in the process.
A chip stack is never stagnant; it’s either always shrinking or always growing. If you don’t keep feeding it more chips, you’re going to lose it to the blinds or to your more ambitious opponents. Even if you’re not getting the cards that you want, you’ve got to find a way to keep adding to your pile. There’s nothing wrong with taking a few hands of, but eventually you’ll have to start buying up some pots to bolster your stack. It won’t always work, but if you do it judiciously, you’ll be able to keep your stack alive in spite of the circumstances. Regardless of what the cards are saying, make sure that your stack finds a way to grow, otherwise, it’ll waste away to nothing in your next poker online tournament.
