Is it good to stay in the red zone?

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The strategic advantage in tems of BB/hand of a smaller stack over larger can't possibly be larger than the difference in stack size. This thread is ridiculous. I'm done.

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You are the one who is making a really silly argument. Of course you are better off with 12xBB than 5xBB. If I have 12xBB, I am not going to purposely lose a pot to get down to 5xBB. However, in real life, I don't have that kind of choice.

I may have 5xBB and I can call a raise to either get to 12xBB or bust out. I may be at 12xBB and can call a push to get to 21xBB or 5xBB, depending if I win. I may have 30xBB and I can call a reraise allin and either wubd up at 5xBB or 60xBB or fold and have 27xBB. I may have 10xBB and I can push and wind up at 22xBB if I win 12xBB if I steal, or bust out: if getting blinded down gives me more opportunities, I am under less pressure to make a marginal move.

I presented it slightly in a ironic way. Of course you would rather be in the orange zone than the red zone, but you don't have that choice straight up. The only arguments against my post have been this moronic "this is ridiculous, you always want more chips".