Do I have the right to be angry about this

[fimbulwinter]

quickly: I'm a NL 6max player who generally plays fairly loose (VP$IP ~34-40 typically). This is a style that I enjoy playing and that makes the game interesting and mentally challenging to me. Monetarily, these extra hands above say VP$IP ~25 are worth about 1PTBB/100 (PTBB is NL terminology for twice the size of the big blind) to me, if anything at all. therefore the main reason i play them is for my own enjoyment.

especially with the advent of ed miller's GSIH, the games in which i play are rife with short buyins playing all-in or fold preflop poker. most of them play badly, some of them do it quite well. The problem this presents me is a greatly decreased return on hands with high implied odds and a slightly lowered winrate simply because there is less money available on the table, and my overlay is cut down as the money gets shorter.

in short, this is forcing me to tighten up and play more robotically. It's certainly not hard to beat a player on 30bb's, but it's boring and much more card-dependant than i'd like.

In the strictest sense they are playing better in that they are losing players and are risking less money, therefore increasing their EV. In this sense I feel silly being angry about them ruining the fun of the game, but at the same time, i think there has been a lot of the "play" taken out of poker given the popularity of tournaments and now i feel that is spilling over.

Obviously there's nothing i can do. party loves fish, fish love shortstacks and weak/tights love fish, so any real complaint would get no creedence. I have, admittedly, berated shortstacks and tried to taunt them into rebuying to full to "bust" me. I shouldn't do that, I know.

Am I being irrational? They moved my cheeze and I dont like it.

fim