Re: Punishing limpers (Results)
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Contrary to popular belief, being a short stack is an intrinsic advantage.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. A primary advantage NLHE has over LHE is that you can manipulate bet sizes so that opponents do not have proper odds to call your bets. As a matter of fact, this is where much of a NLHE player's profits come from: players mistakedly making bad calls against a good players bets. If you buy in short stacked, and lose a portion of your stack early, often you cannot bet enough to make it bad enough for players to fold to your bet. They will have the odds to draw, knowing you can't put any more pressure on them, and they know how much the next 2 cards are going to cost them. Also, you don't get paid off well on your monsters (If you are afraid of losing your medium sized stack to someone else's big hand, poker's not for you). You're often all in, in coin flip situations, win half, lose half. Etc. etc. etc.
We all get the same cards in the long run. A small stack limits what can be won when you are dealt those good cards that we all want to get.
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