Stack size is not an absolute number. It is always a ratio. For example, both Dan Harrington’s M, in his no-limit tournament books, and Lee Nelson’s Kill Everyone’s CPR compare stack size to the Cost ...

A lot has been written about the influence of the amount of chips in front of you on the hands you can and should play. Almost without exception, these writings are about tournament play. After all, ...

There are poker tournaments and then there are deep-stack poker tournaments. This past week, a reader (and cash-game opponent, at the time) asked me to explain the difference and the benefits of each.