someone just posted about O8 sngs and i remembered about something i've wanted to post for a long time.

the theory came from gigabet's thoery of tournament poker where, in some aspect, you play you stack size and your position and not your cards.

the thoery is this (in pot limit): in a single pot there is really only so many chips that can go in. ex: blinds 100/200 and you are 3 off the button with 10000 in chips.
the BB only has 1000 in chips (before posting blind). if you isolate the BB your other 9000 chips are essentially worthless. if the table is really tight the correct play may be to raise regardless of your cards.

basically the BB knows that if he wants to play this hand he is putting his tournament life on the line. not only is the blind easier to steal but if he wants to play he's going to be less likely to be aggressive w/o the nuts (but you will be aggressive no matter what falls). if you win the hand you knocked out a player, showed that you may raise with anything, and added to you chips and can now do the same thing to a bigger stack. if you lose the hand you still have 9000 in chips, you still get to show that you will raise with anything, and you made a player risk his tournament life, and now the table will fear you.

the situation has to be just right for these types of plays: on the bubble is preferable, only against a much smaller stack, against a tight table, and when your table image is tight.

basically you are inserting yourself in a -ev situation when it is ideal to do so.

i've used this thoery pretty succesfully in holdem and only recently switched it over to omaha but it is just killing the small limit sngs.

anyone have any thoughts?