An Interesting Strategy..... worth it?

[Wes]

Learn to pushbot. That is the key to winning at SNGs. Not chip dumping to a lesser player (not even sure how you could do this when the blinds are this big when you should just shove 100% of the time without much thought)

[VeryMoonFunk]

That actually is how I play, I just thought of this interesting strategy last night and thought it might be worth posting. It's probably more effective in an MTT where the stacks are deeper.

Your def right about SNGs just being pushbot central.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

with blinds/stacks as they are in your example, you should be pushing them in with any above average hand. MTT/SNG doesn't matter. Skill is not an issue in this spot, they will both need to get equally lucky to pick up a hand before they are blinded out or hit their hand when they get their 2-4 BBs in with any two.

If you all had even 20+ BB stacks somehow you would certainly rather play heads up with a weaker player, but I can't see how giving chips away helps you have a better chance of taking down the tourney.

[Zybomb]

Yea -- i dont like this at all players have between 2.5 and 4.5 BBs each just continually shove on them with any decent holding (i disagree with autoshoving since they are so low that you'll likely be called ATC at least from the 1400 stack)

[Windbreaker]

With those types of stacks....I would be willing to open a lot more often against the guy w/ 2600 chips than the short stack.

Depends on the players, but a lot of times a player in second place would be more willing to fold a marginal hand in the hopes to move up the pay scale - wait for short to bust before gambling.

However, for the given stack to blind ratio....you just need to push every edge you can and make the correct push or fold decision preflop.

[Talking Poker]

I think this is a very bad idea. Your chips are far too valuable for you to be "dumping" them to anyone.

Just bust the SS weaker player and have more chips to play the better player HU. You'll have a massive chip lead. If you try to get cute, the good player will end up busting the bad player and getting his chips AND the ones you dumped off to the bad player and now you'll be HU against him with much closer stacks.

Yeah, horrible idea.

[Robbr25]

I would rather have more chips vs a better player than equal or slightly more than equal chips against a lesser player.
Give a lesser player more chips they get more times to get lucky.