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Originally Posted by meale
Nice hands. I think you can prob shove river in last hand too, but it's whatever. I don't think the nuts or 77 bets only 100.
Re the buyin thing, as someone who comes from an online background, I can't fathom the idea of buying in short. When people are opening 5x as a standard, I think you benefit from being deeper. Also when you get the absolute drooler come along who is 500+ deep, not having 500+ seems pretty bad but ofc you can just top up when that guy arrives. But yeah, what I notice about the short stacks is that they tend to pot commit themselves with weak hands vs deeper stacks. Like they'll stack off otf with top pair when the deeper uncapped player has stronger top pairs and overpairs? But that's probably not an issue for you and there's a diff between a 150 stack and a 300 stack. I guess if it decreases the volatility of your sessions and reduces stdev, it's probably fine... Just don't see how it could be higher EV than being in for the max.
Im not saying its higher EV. Im just saying its not lower EV like most people think. I bought in for $300 for over 1400 hours in 2016. In 2017 Ive been buying in mostly for $400 and sometimes $500. My win rates are close enough that I dont think there any real difference overall.
I bought for $300 today but I would say I had a stack of $400+ for at least 1/2 the session. There are times when a whale sits down with a full stack and I top up to $500 (or I may already be at $500 by then). There are also times when the table is pretty crazy and $30+ raises are getting called 3-4 times and I can just shove my $300 in with quite a few different premiums but shoving $500+ would be awkward.
I had a hand today where there was a button straddle. A donk in EP shoved with $30. He got 2 calls. I had $315 and shoved all in with JJ. That's a much different hand if I have $500. (I got HU with the short stack who had 43 offsuit and I lost..UGH!)