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title: "Tournament strategy: stack depth, thresholds and the pressure of a finishing line"
url: https://pokernewsstrategy.com/tournaments/
description: "Rising blinds, shrinking stacks and the places where survival changes the maths."
published: 2026-08-19
updated: 2026-08-19
author: "Poker News Strategy"
---

# Tournament strategy: stack depth, thresholds and the pressure of a finishing line

By Poker News Strategy · Published 2026-08-19

Tournaments

### [What the bubble does to the value of a chip](https://pokernewsstrategy.com/tournaments/how-the-bubble-changes-chip-value/)

In a tournament, chips won are worth less than chips lost. Near the money that gap widens far enough to change which hands are worth playing.