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[QUOTE="starfall, post: 390072, member: 7551"]
Antes are just another form of forced bet, and therefore encourage action. Just play a micro limit 7 Card Stud game where they don't have an ante if you want to see what difference it makes. In online HoldEm you generally see them in the later stages of a tournament. The first change is that stealing the blinds, and generally playing looser and more aggressively is more important, as the starting size of the pot is larger. If you can steal a couple of pots around, then with the increasing blinds and antes, then you'll quickly start to build up a good chip stack, so you don't then necessarily need to play big pots. The other change, is that if you've just missed the blinds in a non-ante game, and you're a serious short-stack, then you can sit for several hands waiting for a premium (or at least better) hand. If you have antes being deducted from your stack each turn, then this becomes less of an option, as your short stack will rapidly dwindle even between the blinds. This forces you to a) push all-in earlier, so you don't get so short-stacked, and b) gamble, since you can't wait on a better hand.
I'd say that antes probably result in short-stacks going out faster, so if you want a tournament to end more quickly, then it's probably a good thing. If you're a tighter, less aggressive player, then you're better off with non-ante tournaments, as you'll have more chance to bide your time.
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