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Originally Posted by Jkpoker10
Ha I like this thought but is there really a skill advantage when playing 12-15bb effective? I mean if you min open and sb or bb calls. It’s like almost 100% cbet honesty regardless of the
Flop and one villian oop. It gets kinda dicey when we cbet say QJ3 and they peel. Normally we shut down turn and river.
I think In spot op stated- I like min open or shove. Really depends. If blinds are super spewy and will call too much, prolly shove bc 99 is hard to play so shallow post. We should cbet super small against 1 villian but hand sucks if villian calls and we don’t have overpair to a board. Jam is perfectly fine and +ev so will never fault that. I feel jam also looks slightly weaker. I like min open bc we don’t face a quick elimination from tourny if we run into AK or monster. Just we have to call off if someone jams behind unless it goes like open, call, jam jam. I feel min open should be hands like kk AA Ak AQ (hands to induce) and maybe some broadways. Never bad to have some more med strength hands in the min open camp bc if we are only min opening KK/ AA to induce- not great event though we will rarily see the same villians in live game
That can pick up on this.
Yes, there is still a big skill advantage. Take a look at some of the defending range for the BB; they are supposed to continue with ~79% of their range. The jamming range is mostly intuitive; pairs, the big and little Ax, KQo, JT/T9s, with just AA as a trap (I tend to play KK as a trap there as well). How many of 'us' are getting even this right? It wouldn't occur to me to call stuff like J3o, Q2o, and the worst suited stuff, but they are all calls.
On to the flop. Short stack play is very different post as well. We are all used to checking to the preflop raiser. What percentage of the time is BB defender leading on 8x75cc? If you get close to this, congratulations, you understand short stack play better than most.
I could go on, but you can see there is plenty to short stack play. This is why people like Matt Berkey, who is used to playing 200BB+ feel disadvantaged in tournaments. A lot of the game play is at these stack depths, especially when the $ is big.