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[QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6767116, member: 397965"]
Excellent point. A big stack is mainly a weapon againt mid stacks, for whom its an ICM disaster to bust before short stacks. Lets say its the final table, and we are in CO with a 60BB stack, which gives us the chip lead. BTN, SB and BB all have medium stacks of 25-35BB. The shortest stack is UTG with 6BB, and he has open jammed. In that situation our range for calling him off is not any wider, just because we have 60BB rather than 30BB. As you say, its even a strategical disadvantage for us, if UTG bust, so if anything we are slightly more inclined to fold as the chip leader.

However if UTG has folded, and it folds around to us, then we can open quite a bit wider than normal, since its unlikely, any of the players behind want to mess with us, as long as UTG is still around with his short stack. So we get quite a lot more fold equity preflop, and even postflop people are less inclined to get sticky with marginal hands or try some fancy check-raise bluff, when they know, its their tournament life, which potentially comes into play, rather than ours.
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