Where to find shortstack strategy?

specultr · #1 09-23-2007, 01:14 PM

I've noticed in some cardrunners vids and in my own games that shortstackers are usually weaker opponents, so deeper players will play looser and more aggressive against them. At higher stakes, there seems to be a strategy employed by shortstackers. Barry Greenstein likes to play with a short stack because he says it is easier. I play w/30+ full buy-ins at my level and always deep, but I'd like to take shots at bigger games with a short stack. Where can I find a successful strategy for short stack play in the forums?

phydaux · #2 09-23-2007, 01:19 PM

Use the search function. I've coached the SSS here half a dozen times.

phydaux · #3 09-23-2007, 03:49 PM

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Use the search function. I've coached the SSS here half a dozen times.

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Here, I did it for you. That's what you really wanted, wasn't it?

Shortstack strategy?

Something is very wrong either with me or with Ed Miller's book...

Ed Miller's Short Hand Strategy on Full Tilt...

Also, check out Ed's web site. He's got a ton of articles on the SSS there.

specultr · #4 09-23-2007, 04:26 PM

I was just reading some old posts from the search. Thanks, for the links.

Btw, what's the difference between ratholing and shortstacking?

gregorio · #5 09-23-2007, 04:32 PM

Ratholers shortstack and leave as soon as they double up to go shortstack at another table.

phydaux · #6 09-23-2007, 04:49 PM

Ratholing is taking chips out of play by removing them from the table. If you do this but remain at the table, then according to the Table Stakes rule you are cheating.

Many SSS players rathole by buying in short, doubling up, leaving the table and then buying in short at another table, pocketing the profit along the way. This is legal according to the Table Stakes rule, as well as ridiculously easy to do in an on-line poker site.

It is this practice that royally pisses off so many deep stack players, since it doesn't give them a chance to "win their money back." This is also, by the way, exactly how I advise SSS players to play. I love tilt equity.

Many SSS players do not rathole. They buy in short, then when they double up they make the very necessary adjustments to their basic strategy and play a more regular medium/deep game. This is how guys like pokey advise people to use the SSS. Using it this way limits a new player's BR exposure, allows them to practice table selection, and lets them practice medium/deep play with won money. It also doesn't piss anyone off, since you're keeping the chips in play and at risk.

It also allows the SSS player a chance to learn how to play poker since, as I'm fond of saying, the SSS is not poker.