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With a short stack you are removing one of the most important weapons in NLHE: the bluff. You can only fire one shell at the pot. If that doesn't work, you can only win by showing down the best hand.

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This is wrong. Having a short stack does not mean you can't bluff effectively. If it did, though, it would mean that your opponents would be unable to bluff you. So, once again, this is not an argument against buying in short.

I bluff and semibluff frequently when I have a short stack. I don't follow the simple short stack strategies described by Ed Miller and by me, which involve playing tightly and hoping to get paid off by unobservant players. While that is profitable, it is even better to pick up many pots no one really wants.

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All things considered, if you want to make $$ at NL, you need to buy in for the max.

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That's just a common misconception. People are prejudiced against having a short stack, but properly handled, a short stack can be very profitable. See the past discussions of this where many respected posters in the high stakes NL forum mentioned buying in short, including El Diablo/Ulysses, KaneKungFu123, Tommy Angelo, and Limon.