Re: From \"chip and a chair\" to tourney winner - skill or luck?
You should always be trying to play skillfully. The thing is, as you get less and less chips there is less and less skill involved. i.e. more often the best and worst ways to play are more similar.
When you go below about (i reckon) 2.3BB you can expect to be called almost all the time, so here the only skill is deciding which hand to go all in on. This is definately a skill though.
At about 4BB you should be able to steal blinds, and so again choosing which hands to try to steal with, and who to steal against is an added element of skill.
At about 8BB you should be able to reraise someones bet and get them to fold some of the time. This is an added element of skill.
At 13BB or more you are not really all that shortstacked (by OL tournament standards!)
just my thoughts
Tim
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