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Originally Posted by m0mmy
Just wondering what are yalls thought on short buying. I play in an uncapped 1/2 with multiple stacks of 300-1000bb on the table at a time. The mimimum buy in is 100$ and i have been buying in for 100-150$ at a time. Right now i have 1500 dedicated to poker. What do you suggest i buy in for?
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$100-$150 works fine. You should never be calling raises, only 3! (or 4! with AA, KK against people who aren't only 3! AA) and only with super premiums (AK, JJ+). Fold suited connectors, non-premium broadways, small PP. You can try to see a cheap flop with mid-PP 77-TT. With these hands I prefer limping, and with TT sometimes l/rr AI depending on the raiser. I often used the old l/rr AI from EP with my entire range, especially at a very active table where a raise is likely to get multiple callers putting extra dead money out there.
You should just leave after one or two double-ups and book the small win. They will add up. Plus, starting out, $100 or $200 is a lot relative to your BR. Obviously this method takes a lot of patience and discipline, but it's a winning strategy for someone with a small roll. Note my friend did this and quarupled his roll ($500 to $2k) but then lost all his profit over the next month or two and quit, so it's not impossible to go broke. Sometimes you just get lots of negative variance all near the beginning. I went broke myself early on at one point (but I didn't really have a roll).
Be prepared to lose to coolers and suckouts. That's how stortstaking works when you do lose. It can be brutal but it's how I built up my roll over a year to a point where I'm pretty much doing the same thing at 2/5, except now once I have doubled up a couple times and am deep I do not rack up because I have learned deepstack decently enough too.
Gl!
Last edited by DumbosTrunk; 05-10-2019 at 12:31 PM.