Most nights, the train before the midnight train has the same particulars as the midnight train; the buy in, the entry fee, the starting stack, and the blind structure are all the same. Some nights, however, the earlier train is a deepstack instead. That was the case last night. The buy in and entry fee were half what they are in the midnight train. The starting stack was 5000 chips instead of 1500. The blinds escalated quite a bit faster. Finally, the payout table stole money from the lower places to inflate the money up top, to the extent that the lowest paying rung didn't fully cover the buy in and entry fee. Deepstacks generally attract more players due to the insane top prizes. The problem with deepstacks is that if you don't play them very often, you forget that you can't play them the way you'd play regular tournaments. So how should you play them? Ironically, you should play them as if you're short-stacked from the get-go. The range of hands you're willing to play should be much narrower than it normally is. In other words, you should be folding a lot. You need more luck in a deepstack than you do in a regular tournament. I don't like deepstacks very much, but I don't like not playing even more. If a deepstack is the only tournament on offer when I want to play, I'm definitely going to play it.
style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings
MTT NLHE 87000 13000 6 118 24 10 179000
delta: $79,000
MTT NLHE balance: $25,218,768
2021 balance: $1,847,000
blue distance: $1,825,000
balance: $79,512,453
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