NL holdem blind to stacks ratios

[Yellowbeard]

I just finished reading through kick ass nl holdem's pdf on NL and I have a few questions for the experts.

In the document, he distinguished between high blind/shallow stack, medium blind, medium stack, and low blind/high stack scenarios.

1. Is there a percentage I should be looking at to determine when a table is high blind/shallow stack or one of the others? Any good rules of thumb? My regular live game normally starts with about 2% of the buyin is the big blind. I'm assuming that is low blind, deep stack, but when does it change?

2. The document recommends playing loose aggressive when low blind/deep stack. It recommends tight aggressive for medium blind/medium stack. And then recommends more aggression large blind/short stack. Does everyone agree in general with those principals?

Any thoughts, comments, or additions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Bob

[Nottom]

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My regular live game normally starts with about 2% of the buyin is the big blind. I'm assuming that is low blind, deep stack, but when does it change?

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In Kick-Ass NLHEesse this game would be in the Seige Territory or MediumStack/MediumBlind. In order to really take advantage of the more aggressive strategies you are going to need to have stacks well up over 100BBs.

In general most of the principals are sound
- when shortstacked you are usually just happy to steal the blinds
- midsized stacks play more like limit
- when in a battle with big stacks you can get away with a lot more "play" in an effort to trap someone and take their whole stack.

[The Dude]

50x the BB is definately in the "Seige Territory." (Medium blind/ medium stack.)

I am really looking for at least 150x the BB before I'm in small blind/ deep stack territory. 200x or more is definitely in this range, but I don't think 100x quite gets there.

[Yellowbeard]

Thanks for the feedback. Can you tell me at what point (number of BBs) you think it moves to Kamikaze (low stack/high blind)?

Thanks,

Bob

[Redhot_man]

I think 50BB is about as low as you can go and still call it NL.