TEN-TO-ONE-RULE

For sure you know the situation at a poker table, you are the big stack and when nobody else is involved in the hand you push the small stack all in.

This is a poker rule called “Ten-to-one-rule”. This rule means, if your stack is ten times bigger than that of the short stack, you should push him all in. 

I did it every time instinctively and never knew this was a rule. But be careful with this rule, it can happen, the small stack has exactly in this moment a big starting hand, calls, will win the pot and you lose your chips. One time is ok, two times too, but the 8^th or 9th time you are the small stack at the poker table or even eliminated from the tournament.

It is nice to be a big stack, but you have to handle you stack with sense. You could think twice before pushing small stacks all in with any two cards. You should choose the right spot and the right time to push. 

My question is, is this really a rule or only an instinctive matter? For me it isn’t necessarily a rule, but everyone of us used it for sure more than once, right?

 

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