[timsta007]

Originally Posted by jmc

Disadvantages:
1. Your hands are easier for your opponents to read, but the opposite may not be true.
2. You may be passing on some very profitable situations against the bad players in the early stages of a tournament.

Nice article, but when playing in a moderate to large field tournament (100 or more) the bold above is simply too large a disadvantage to me. Being able to take advantage of other people's mistakes post flop is too lucrative to pass up. Also, having a large stack in the middle and late stages of the tourny is critical to surviving the inevitable "bad beats" when you call a short stack, have him dominated and lose 25% of the time.