Table Selection / Short Stacks

[theblitz]

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I look for a high average pot size.


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I actually look for the low average pot size. This indicates weak and passive players. Just the sort of table that is easy to push around.
At 6-max being able to muscle a table is very important.

I just wish that Party would show "% players per flop".

[Voltron87]

i hate shortstacks. its one reason why i cant play on pokerstars, you go to 200 nl and there are 3 people with 60$. its ridiculous. i dont mind them when they are the "top pair jack kicker all in whatever" kind but otherwise theyre a waste of time.

[Fletch46]

I haven't played on the cash sites online yet but I do play regularly at a cardroom. We have a $1-2 NL game, min buyin $40 and max $100. There are players who regularly buy-in for $40 or $50 and then go all in with just about anything and then rebuy. I've seen players lose a pot, call for chips and lose them on the next hand before the chips get to the table! I think it's the TV thing. They just want to play like the big boys they see on the WSOP. When you've got them beat, they're a gift but otherwise they are a pain.

[spider]

So this thread is a complete validation of the Ed Miller short stack method, right?

[bingledork]

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So this thread is a complete validation of the Ed Miller short stack method, right?

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Short stacks definitely have the advantage. Fortunately for the rest of us, most people who play short stacks don't know what they are doing.

[Voltron87]

you cant win as much playing a shortstack as you can playing a bigstack, so youre kind of wasting your time, and it is not that hard for good players to adjust to shortstacks using this strategy. it is not unbeatable or anything.

[spider]

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you cant win as much playing a shortstack as you can playing a bigstack, so youre kind of wasting your time, and it is not that hard for good players to adjust to shortstacks using this strategy. it is not unbeatable or anything.

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Yet, you just said you hate them, right? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Voltron87]

because i make less money when they are at the table.

they are just slowing the rate i win money, that is why i hate them. not because they are winning my money.

[spider]

Go_blue mentioned how you have to play differently against a short stack, about how it takes some of the post-flop skill advantage away. That's basically what I was referring to.