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If your buying in for half the buy-in your not playing short stacked your playing mid stacked.Playing mid stack is the worst of both worlds. You won't get payed the max amount when you do get good hands and you can't play the correct short stack strategy.

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Now I don't agree with this at all. Typically mid-stack is sometimes the best to play. First it will still be pretty difficult for you to get outplayed by big stacks, and yet they typically can't just push you around either. Plus, in LP, you can still take advantage of implied odds often enough with your low and med pps and such in heavily limped pots. Et cetera.

Remember, the effective stack is only as big as the small stack in the hand, and often enough playing with a mid-stack, you can much more easily give an opponent the wrong price to play back at you and get paid more handsomely than short-stacking, all that while not making it look out of the ordinary. In particular, it might be ideal for an ABC TAG-ish player sitting in a game full of pro-LAGs.