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title: "Tournament Play"
url: https://brunsonpokerpro.com/groups/tournament-play/
description: "How rising blinds rewrite every deep-stacked instinct. A study area of the Brunson Poker Pro network."
---

# Tournament Play

How rising blinds rewrite every deep-stacked instinct.

Study area:

Tournament Play

Discussions filed:

1

Suit mark:

diamond

Sequence:

7-week network order

A tournament stack is not money in the ordinary sense: it cannot be reloaded, and its value relative to the blinds falls on a schedule regardless of how the cards run. This group covers what changes when a stack drops from a hundred big blinds to forty to fifteen, why the correct play with the same hand can invert across those depths, and why survival has an explicit value in a payout structure that it never has in a cash game.

## Discussions in this area

- Week 6 of 7 [Short stack push-or-fold play](https://brunsonpokerpro.com/discussions/short-stack-push-fold-play/) Below about fifteen big blinds the decision tree collapses to two branches, and that simplification is the whole advantage.  7 min

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