[suzzer99]

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I've been told by lacky, and experience confirms this, that I'm a liability with too many BIs. He actually said I should buyin for the minimum, but I don't have the nerve.

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[img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] The "nerve"? You mean because of what the other players... who you are there to rape and pillage, remember... might think of you?

It's very reasonable to buy in short as you are learning cash, I did it for a while. Plus you can make a reasonable living never buying in deep if you play enough tables, which is easy to do as a shorty because all your decisions are preflop or on the flop. If you make too much $$ on one table just cash out and join another one.

Then as you make the transition and want to learn to play deeper, you can stay on tables where you win $$ and adjust your strategy, this serves as a hedge of sorts and also naturally leads to the "stack protection" approach that raptor recommends above, since you don't want to blow all your winnings from that table on one stupid hand.

Gradually as you get better, you can then buy in deeper from the start.

Of course you can make more $$ playing deep IF you are a good deep-stacked player. That IF is kinda critical, though.

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I'm working on the theory that if I buyin for $120 ($1/$2) I just look like an oblivious donk buying in for the default amount, and not someone going out of their way to shortstack. Of course as the regulars get to know me this effect will diminish.

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Um, 60 big blinds is not short-stacking. In fact it's a nebulous zone where you can find yourself pot-committed pretty easily with hands that you'd prefer the option to get away from, and meanwhile you can't profitably play many implied odds hands or 3-bet preflop because you aren't deep enough. I could argue that it's the worst of both worlds, really.

By short-stacking, I'm talking about buying in for 20 big blinds here.

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Wow. I thought $80 was the min. $40 sure would keep me out of trouble. Man I'd feel like a dick though. (cue exasperation)