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I didn't miss your point. My answer was (and is reiterated a little more clearly here): it doesn't affect my decision and it shouldn't affect yours

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I respectfully disagree. I'll look out for abnormally high or low stacks. Sure, luck is the largest determiner of what happens to a man's stack in the course of a single session, but in my experience

1) Someone with a small stack is more likely (than an averagely stacked contemporary) to be either a poor player and / or on tilt.

2) Someone with a particulary large stack is more likely (than an averagely stacked contemporary) to be either loose & lucky and / or overly confident following a recent rush.

Of course I'm going to have to watch them play (or refer to PT stats) to firm up suspicions about individual players, but in the absence of any other information I'll sit at the table of extreme stacks.

RH