NL: Why the hate on short buy-ins?

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in the long run, it is profitable to buy in short if you play it right. wait for premium hands, push all in pre flop and you will almost always get called by some rag hand from a large stack. as long as they keep calling with rags, i will keep buying in short.

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Exactly. Happens all the time that way. They fail to adapt to a short stack's strategy, which is to play only premium hands. They can't use their deep stacks to bludgeon people out of the game. Different strategy. Just the way it goes.

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...lol @ 'adjusting' to short stack 'strategy' (lol @ calling it 'strategy'). If you get it all in preflop against a 20BB short stack with two live cards you're never going to be too much worse than a 60/40. That has a total expectation of -4BB against a 20BB stack. Less than the cost of a failed blind steal. If the short stack is only playing like JJ-AA then it's easy to fold any time he even glances at his chips unless you also have a huge hand.

Short stacks do nothing but dumb down the game.