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[Foucault]

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exactly. unless he has a top tier hand. you can't play a short stack the same as if you have an average stack.

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Have to disagree with you here. Short-stacked is the worst time to pass up marginal edges, because it is so likely that you will be forced into making a -EV play in the near future. Very often, short stack pushes are either marginally +EV or slightly -EV. They are desperation plays made to avoid being forced into an even worse situation later. Say it's folded around to you in the SB and you have 5 BB's left. You should push here regardless of what two cards you hold, not because you expect Villain to fold often enough to make up for being a dog against his calling range, but because you will probably not get a better opportunity to put your chips in.

If you were the BB with 5 BB's remaining and it were folded to the SB, who also had 5 BB's left, and he went all in, are you throwing away 55?