Pooh-Bah - Crushing Short Stacks

[the_main]

Excellent post, CMAR

[pattay]

awesome post, like others im gonna save it and come back to it

[CalledDownLight]

Please delete. Also, you have one sentence in there that can make you almost unbeatable in one aspect. Too bad for you that there is no way I divulge it unless I decide to give up shortstacking forever. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Johnes Benjamin]

Great post
Your contributions to this forum are amazing CMAR
It is a shame that most of us are too ADD to read carefully through the whole thing or will get too drunk tonight and forget it.
The full extent of your wisdom may be lost in time, like tears in rain
(watched it this weekend)

[Cry Me A River]

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Please delete.

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No.

In any game or competition, whenever a strong but unbalanced strategy arises it is also always it's own Achilles' heel.

There is obviously no way to discourage bad short stackers. They short stack because they don't know any better. What's more, they are generally so exploitable we don't want to discourage them.

Against those players, the tactics I've outlined will not get rid of them, they will only increase your earn against them.

However, against good short stackers my tactics will have two effects.

They will cut their profitability considerably and send their variance through the roof. Good short stackers play that way because they see it as a viable, profitable strategy. And they're the ones who will seek new strategies when it starts to fail.

If a large number of full stacks begin taking this approach, short stacking will begin to fail.

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Also, you have one sentence in there that can make you almost unbeatable in one aspect.

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Only one?

You've given me a good idea though. A cliff-notes version that only lists the tactics and not the reasons why. For people who don't want to read the whole thing and just want a straight-foreward playbook on how to cripple shorties.

Tomorrow...

[RiverMustelid]

No wonder you haven't been posting in the Grey Swan of late. Seriously good effort.

[kris_p]

Nice post, very interesting read [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[LearningCurve]

Outstanding, C!

Definitely one of those that will need to be read more than once, which will perhaps make up for the amount of time and effort you must have put into creating it.

Thank you!! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[diebitter]

CMAR
v. nice, ModOfTheYear vote from me.

CDL - be cool, just play as a good SSer, it remains unexploitable strat.

[Kevroc]

OP is better than most Cardplayer and Bluff columns.

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OP is better than most Cardplayer and Bluff columns

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QFT

P.S. CHOO CHOO!!!