50 BB Short Stack Strategy

[Nsight7]

More so than-short-stacking, I find that 50-65BB is pretty hard to defend against if played well. They offer you thin implied odds and if they can fire a 3-bet, you are going to be defending against them with their effective stack in your chips. Plus they can still usually get in a multi-way limp/min-raise limp with a small pp or so and play for at least a little bit of set-value. Plus people think of them in the same vein as someone buying in for half as much and pretty much aggress on them in the same way, which is now significantly riskier.

I dunno, maybe it is just me but I think playing a 50 or 60BB stack plays much differently than standard short-stack strategy and can be very profitable with less variance than standard short-stacking, though I agree also that if you can you should play full buy-in.

[Hebel]

i love playing medium stacks because they have enough behind them to give you fold equity and push them around