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Message: [QUOTE="Dara OKearney, post: 5110523, member: 390655"] [b]Stages and stack sizes[/b] Thank you, and very good question. There are two factors in what our modality should be at any particular point in a satellite: stage of the tournament, and our current stack. The combination of these two factors determines our modality. First factor is stage of the tournaments. This can be broken down into three broad stages: early, middle and endgame. In the early stage, we will start with a strategy similar to that we would employ in a normal mtt (or indeed a cash game) of looking to accumulate chips and focusing on Cev (chipEv), with some adjustments (even at this stage we want to lower variance). The degree of adjustment also depends on our stack size (more on this in a minute). In the book, we define middle game starts when a fifth of the field are going to get seats (everything before that is early game). Early is when everyone has roughly the same stack and everyone is super deep. Middle game is when stacks get shallower and there is also a large divergence of stacks where some people are short and some people are chipped up. The endgame starts when a third of the field are going to get seats, and ICM is a bigger factor. This is typically when there is very little postflop action and it feels materially very different. The nearer we get to the bubble the bigger a factor ICM becomes, and the more it warps correct strategy. Because of this most of our book is about the endgame, and the adjustments you need to make from "Play normal poker". The other factor is stack size. A key inflection point at which you should be looking to lower variance is when you pass 50% of the target stack you need for a seat. Another inflection point is somewhere around the 70% mark, the point at which you should be able to cruise to a seat and should be looking simply to maintain your stack rather than accumulate further chips. [/QUOTE]

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