Can one of the pro's reply or do an article on effective stacks. I mean I know the term and what it means but how should I be thinking about this in a HUSNG as the game goes on. IE: My opponent has 1100 and I have 1900 so effective stacks is 1100 if I am thinking correctly, should I be tightening up, betting larger/smaller etc...
I guess I don't truely understand what thought processes I should be going through as effective stacks change.
Thanks
You're on the right track.
Once you determined the effective stacks are 1100, you have to look at the blinds. If the blinds are 10-20, then you divide the bb by the eff stacks, 1100/20, to get 55. When you hear pros say "we're 55bbs deep" that is what this means. Note: Starting stacks are 1500, so the deepest you can be is 75bbs.
The standard default fundamental strategy is when you are on the button to raise 3x the bb until you get to around 50bbs, then 2.5x the bb until you get to 30-40bbs, then a minraise until you get to around 8-12bbs, then it's shove or fold. Limping is seperate, you can limp in any level.
Now, those are some general rules, not everybody follows them, and it's not maxEV to follow them blindly, but it's a good basic strategy to follow until you've built up other, more important skills then you can work on fine tuning your preflop game a little bit more.
I talk about effective stacks and different PFR sizes vs different opponents in a lot of my earlier videos. I know PrimordialAA does in his "fundamental concept" series in his archive videos, particularly the first one.
An article on this is not a bad idea, I'll keep that in mind.
in the HU MTTs on Stars they have Antes, how do we calculate effective stacks and raise sizes with that little extra in the pot.
if it is 75/150 with a $20 ante how does that change things?
Ok its morning now, we just add half the ante to the big blind and half to the small, then adjust accordingly. so we say we're playing 85/160.
Haha, beat me to it!