$40 Bastards NLCASH

[Ellsworth T]

I play .5/1 HU on FTP and the games pretty much at any time are rife with half buy-in type players. I am sure if you play with any type of frequency you are encountering these type of players.

I believe there frequency is often enough that it would be extremely beneficial to come up with some good guidelines to playing against 40bbs. I'll offer a tip and it would be cool if we could keep adding a bunch.

TIP to 40ers #1

Our opening range is wide and many times we are not flopping a pair or even a draw. Against deeper opponents betting the flop usually takes it down and resistance is usually a sign to stop unless we see a tendency or hit nice on the turn. With short stacks like 40ers, the pf raise and bet has already committed 25% of their stack, and I have found an equal distribution it seems with their calling from bottom pair to Ace-Queen high on random flops.

The resolution is with our normal trash, consistently double barrel as these players don't like stacking with bottom pair or ace high and are likely only to continue with good middle pair or top pair, which is less likely to occur than them missing or having a gutshot or bottom pair.

Thoughts on this and other tips maybe such as bet sizes with strong hands etc, when to shove after half their stack is in etc would be awesome.