It's one thing to bluff someone off a middle pair, another to try to represent straight when the guy is holding 2p+.

I don't even try making people fold top top.

I don't ever try to make people fold TP

I try to get people to fold their top pair when I flop a set because I hate getting outdrawn

I would also shun a smoking hot, successful, smart woman for fear that she'll dump me later.

Checking in for the first time. Here's my 2013 so far at 1/2:



Going to start putting in at least 20 hours per week with a bankroll of 2k buying in for 200 at 1/2. If I double my stack I will get up and take a break and rebuy with 200 to reduce my risk of ruin until I get a full 20 BI bankroll.

I have a full time job and live at home still so no rent to worry about, just taking my shot while I'm still young enough to do it. Going down to AC Sat-Mon to grind every week as long as my bankroll will allow me to.

Lets get it.

Here is mine, all 2/5 and 3/5 and about 86 hours so far.

glgl sir

What bankroll is required if I plan to play shortstacked live 1/2? I'm underrolled for buying in full due to some non-poker related things.

I'm aware that I'm reducing win-rates heavily by buying in short, but it beats not playing at all. I plan to buy in for about $50-$75.

I wouldn't even play if you're going to do that. Save up money and wait till you can buy in full.

I'll take half of my normal, full-stacked win-rate over my win-rate of not playing ($0/hour).

It won't be half. You may not even beat the rake.

Have you ever seen a happy live short stacker?

I am a very happy short stacker.

We're talking about poker, not that other thing.

Heh. For real though, full stack is overrated, although I believe what matters more is the absolute value of money than number of bb's.

Like for example, buying in as much as possible would be very important in a .50/1.00 game, whereas short stacking 5/10 would be just fine.

If we're the best player at the table (especially postflop), then shortstacking is beyond ******ed.

GnevershortstacksG

I guess you play a lot more 200bb pots than I do.

That must be the case if you shortstack.

I actually rarely play huge pots.

My method is to typically try to get into a pot for cheap, hit a hand, and then stack someone. I can't do that method if I'm shortstacking cuz I would have to play a lot tighter. Plus, if I do happen to get into a hand against another 100bb player, I'm confident that I'm usually better at playing a 100bb stack than my opponent is; why would I purposely negate this advantage?

If a game is good enough that I might be missing value with less than 100bb, it wouldn't matter in a hand or two anyway.

FWIW, at 1/2, what's considered shortstack and what's considered medium? In my mind, shortstacked is roughly $100 or less. Medium stacked is about $100 to $180 and full stacked is about $181+.

Not sure what you mean? If we're sitting on $150 for some stupid self imposed reason and flop a set against a fish with $200 who can't fold TP in a raised pot, we just blew a super easy $50. I simply don't understand why we would purposely put ourselves in that spot.

I am referring to bigger games like 3/5 or higher, where most pots are played around $150-$300, and it isn't much of handicap if one chooses to start off with less than 100bb.

After all, us as better players are more likely to be coolered than someone less skillful.

I was playing online last night, albeit microstakes, thinking that deep stacked poker may be a bit overrated in terms of how much it's discussed versus how rarely a situation seems to come up where you can stack someone deep. I had over 300 big blinds and a fishy villain to my right also had over 300 big bilnds. I was thinking that it seems like I play thousands and thousands of hands yet rarely does a situation occur where you stack one another. Less than 30 minutes later, I stacked him.

I've played a lot of hands live, too, and it doesn't seem to come up much there either but I still here it discussed a lot, and I've heard many live players claim an uncapped game can be the key to a high hourly, so I try to be vigilant and always have 100bb's and if I earn upwards of 200bb's or more, I really focus on stacking anyone who has me covered. I guess even though it doesn't happen often, the one time it happens in your favor, it's a huge swing.

It tends to happen much more often in uncapped games or games with a high cap than standard 100bb capped games. Obviously there are much more opportunities when buyins are deep instead of waiting for you and the fish to chip up.