Small Stack vs. Big Stack

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BluffTHIS!,

1) Big stacks can profitably play a wider variety of hands against other big stacks;

<font color="red"> Only if you are a better player. </font>

2) Big stacks can bluff/buy pots whereas a short stack always has to make the best hand to win (and there is way more money to be made this way than by having to make the best hand, and which is of more monetary value than the advantage of a small stack in not being able to be bullied);


<font color="red"> This is countered by the fact that you cant bluff effectively against a short stack. And If your talking about big stacks, then just read my first response again. </font>

3) Small stacks can never effectively protect a hand postflop, which overall in the course of many hands played negates it's immunity from being bullied;

<font color="red"> This is obvious and irrelevant. </font>

4) The implied threat of a big stack versus other big stacks often results in being able to take free cards and see checked rivers with drawing and marginal hands which is always favorable;

<font color="red"> You get infinite free cards when you are all-in. And again, none of these are advantages unless you are a better player than the other big stack.
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5) Besides the ability of a big stacks to play more hands profitably than a small stack, the blinds are small in realtion to the big stack, whereas the blind pressure on a small stack is extreme. This is an important point because the cost of playing via the blinds forces small stacks to pay a high price for waiting for premium hands whereas well-played big stacks can often steal enough blinds to have a virtual freeroll.

<font color="red"> Irrelevant, being a short stack does not mean you are on a short roll. Every time through the blinds you can add a few bucks. </font>

Drawing hands in big bet poker gain precisely from the ability to bet on the end (implied odds again).

<font color="red"> Not neccessarily. A flush draw for example loses its value once its hit because its obvious. As does a board with a 4 card straight. Furthermore, this is also only an advantage if you are more skilled in these situations than the other big stacks. A small stack on the other hand gets paid off in full every time it makes a straight or flush. </font>

<font color="green">What it comes down to is this; the better a player you are versus the other players at the table the more chips you want in front of you. If you know you are the best player, you would ideally like to have everyone covered. </font>