Short Stack Strategy

[GoldenK1W1]

Personally, I am not a fan of the Short Stack Strategy.

I am a fan though of those who implement this strategy.

Short Stackers are almost always TAG or LAG players. You can normally decipher which type of player they are by the end of the first few orbits if not earlier.

Very easy to adjust your game to accommodate them and their chips.

Blessings - GoldenK1W1

[rgchan]

I think you should come in with the Maximum Buy-in or above the average of the stacks otherwise it makes you look weak.You can count on your Blinds being raised as it looks like your afraid of losing when you come with the minimum Buy-in.These players usually are multi tabling and won,t play anything but AA,KK,QQ or Ace-king and ALL INS.
Rg

[willie beaman]

It is possible to make a lot of money in a short period of time if you play at decent levels. There is little wiggle room for trying to be too creative against players with larger stacks. When you do pick up a hand though, you will pick up sizable pots when you get your money in good.

[LuckyGabrielo]

This strategy works most of the time but it depends of your luck too

[andrew5]

i don't like short stackers

[Limey777]

I think it's fair to say that shortstacking won't win you any friends on the poker tables but if you're just there to win money I guess it wouldn't concern you.
Pesonally I'm not a fan of this strategy although if I'm lucky enough to grab the seat to the right of a notorious pre flop raiser I have been known to employ this strategy, but usually it just slows them down.
One thing I hate to see is 3-4 shortstackers cycling through the tables, no money on the tables, small pots, no fpp's, can't get a damn seat and you know that as soon as they double up it's off to the next table, even less money on the table.
What I'd like to see is max buy in only tables, if I wanted to play short stack strategy I'd walk out the front door and shout who wants to flip a coin for $10.
Profitable? must be, same guys that were doing it last year are doing it this year although I don't really understand employing this strategy at the micro tables, lets see, that's $3 a day x 365 days in a year, Crap!!!! can't retire yet!!!

[eberetta1]

I always go into a room with the most it allows you to go into a room with.
I cannot believe how many sss people will fold to me, even tho they play the same
style as me, but fold because they do not want to lose their wad to someone with as many chips as me. Heck ya, I'll take those free folds. I had crap cards anyways.

Now, I will use a sss strategy when moving up a level, so I do not go into the room with the max chips allowed. But this is the only time I use the sss. i do this because I feel there is a learning curve between levels, and I want to get my feet wet, without getting burned.

[Poker Orifice]

There are good shortstackers & not so good shortstackers. Shortstacking on the cash tables is used as an unexploitable style, however good players will alter their play to take into account the shortstackers sitting to their left.
I must say I like what Fulltilt has done for the cash game here in 2010, by increasing the min. buyin on the tables to 40bb instead of 20. (you still see some players buying in for the 40 (obviously not the shortstackers) which has got to be the absolute worst sized stack to play with).
I've never bothered to play SSS but have read a bunch of articles about it (Ed Miller's stuff & some other stuff online). There are obvioiusly some decent shortstackers out there but one seems to come across alot of really bad ones too.

[Imdesperate]

I have played 100K hands of sss, its a good beginners tactics. But players are now much better, it stills work, and its now only usefull for bonuswhoring! you can on cake network have a rate of -1 tot 2 BB/100,

[illphillllllll]

in poker there is never just one way to win, you can be successful shortstacking but if you are very good you can look at it as not winning as much as you should be. having a big stack has a big advantages, on the flip side, if you are shortstacked and have a hand there is a better chance of being looked up when you raise big because others might not respect your stack size.