NL: Why the hate on short buy-ins?

[Dilznoofus]

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I seriously fail to see how this is bad for the game, that logic is total BS. Why do you think so many live games cap the Buyins so low? Because it is actually good for the game.

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There's a big difference between 20BB and 40-50BB. And in a live game even with a 50BB cap the stacks will get deeper because players don't just hit and run, move to another table and buy back in for 20BB.

FWIW I don't think short stackers are unethical. I just don't like them and do believe it's bad for the game. It's not just ratholers, but tight mediocre players who never seem to increase their stacks and therefore continue to tighten up the game as they struggle to double up. At microNL I run into a lot of these guys who are 6+ tabling. They sit around breaking even and making the games suck.

You're supposed to give action to get action, but 20BB shorties playing proper strategy only give action by moving in preflop with a narrow range, taking the fun out of the game for the fishy LAGs and loose passives.