[terrellk11]

My problem with players using the short buyin is two-fold:

1. It has the effect of tightening up the whole table. A good shortstacker is only playing 5% (give or take a few percent) of the hands dealt. Every single time I'm at a table and a short-stacker buys in, you can see the average players per flop number drop steadily by 10 percent or more as the whole table dynamic changes. Wild and loose games become rock gardens or just break altogether.

2. It chases off the fish. The fish play the game to see a lot of flops and have a good time. It isn't fun for the fish to have someone sitting at the table that plays one hand every 3 rounds, pushes all in preflop, and then leaves the table with the fish's money when he wins.

In the short-term, it may be a profitable approach to the game. However, by tightening up the games and chasing away the fish, the strategy actually destroys the conditions that make it effective.