Hi all,

Very very loose 1/3 game. Deep stacks in general.

V1: Middle aged guy. Plays a very tight range. I think he gets really nervous when scare cards hit and gives me probably too much. He has about $300

V2: Middle-older aged guy just bought in for $100

V3 and V4: Very Very loose. Both are playing over 50% of hands and playing more passively than aggressively

H: Probably the tightest at the table. Even with my tight image I don't think I can get the respect that I should/normally would when I bet. I have $204 to start.

OTTH: V1 opens to $10 UTG. V2 calls UTG+2, V3 calls in the HJ, V4 calls in the cutoff im on the button with 56 the blinds are super tight and I very rarely have to worry about being squeezed here. I call. Generally I would prefer to be deeper here when calling. Blinds fold.

($54) Flop A56

Bingo! UTG bets 20, UTG+2 calls, V3 and V4 both fold. We rais to $70.

Thoughts on sizing? I leave myself with about $124 left after raising this amount.

V1 TANKKKKK folds. V2 snap calls.


Turn 10

He checks we put him all in for 20 more.

He calls.

thoughts?

Dont play 6 high 66bb deep.

If you want to do that top off or at least be 100 bigs deep.

Ap the hand plays itself, gg if you got coolered.

+1. You are not deep enough to play 65s to a raise. Once you see the flop your committed with 2 pair and SPR < 4.

If you do not have money to top off, when you play a short stack, you adjust your strategy to favor high cards as you're going to have low SPRs on the flop and will be getting it in on the flop more often. Ed Miller wrote a book on NL hold em and has a good short stack strategy from what I'm told. I haven't read that book.

You can absolutely play this profitably on the button with your stack size.

Topping off for less than the minimum buy-in is considered a short buy where I play

Easy fold pf. You're only getting 20:1 maximum odds and are 20:1 to hit a big hand on the flop. To cover times like this where you likely ran into his aces, you need even more odds.

As played, the money is going in. It is better to play bottom 2 pair fast than slow in general.

So why didn't you top up?

I see so many TAG ish players in their 20s who are obviously grinders buy in for 100 bbs, slowly dwindle down to 2/3 of their starting stack and not top up. Don't make that mistake. By far the easiest leak to plug.

It is impossible to make a profit playing suited connectors with this starting stack size. You will never get paid off enough to make up for all the preflop calling and missing. Position is irrelevant.

As played jam the flop.

Our hand simply has far too poor of RIO vs IO, imo, especially in multiway bloated pots (where we may be facing commitment decisions early, unlike limped pots with higher SPRs where we can maybe use our position to figure out the best play on later streets when stacks may be going in). So I fold preflop.

This flop is part of the problem of being in a bloated SPR <= ~4 pot vs a large SPR limped pot; we're facing our commitment decision right away and only have half a street worth of info to base it on. Anyhoo, the pot is already $95 and the remaining stacks are only $80 - $180 and board is drawy and A high. So I feel committed, and shove.

Turn is obvious.

GcluelessNLnoobG

+1 and fyp just a bit