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Originally Posted by CalledDownLight
So I don't see your point. You taught people how to break even or be a marginal loser. When you were thinking about posting this I actually thought you might have groundbreaking information, but once it was posted I really don't think its going to do any harm. If you follow this advice you might be an annoying shortstacker, but you most certainly won't be a good one and there is a huge difference. Good shortstacks will mix things up and play situations that can't be taught on a message board. There is still no SS strat that I know of that will completely alter the game.
ummm....
you'll be a winner playing with what I posted... not breakeven or a marginal loser...
I know from doing it myself and from numerous PMs I received over this thread of people thanking me for giving them the tools to make some really decent sums of bank
that should be enough to bring out the Romanian and Chinese sweatshops
having looked at many datamines, just playing with what I posted would be a higher hourly than most the fullring grinders that play full time that post in the fullring forums.
I don't believe I claimed to know more or post anything that the top shortstackers did not already know.... so, it's really a strawman to say this thread fails because it doesn't provide that.
What it does provide is
1) the solid fundamentals to a strategy that grinds out a small, but above most grinders, hourly
2) Some interesting things for people to think about when countering a shortstack
3) made explicit some things on shortstacking that were not previously in print on the forums that I follow
Of course, winrate could be improved (dramatically so--perhaps doubled winrates at a few stake levels higher) by knowing more poker... LDO
It seems you contest that one could win by just studying this thread... I have numerous anecdotal stories that claim otherwise, but
1) we'll never have a true double-blind study on the winrates of those who try shortstacking based on this thread
2) we possibly disagree on what is fully entailed in this thread and what studying it means
Last edited by MyTurn2Raise; 01-25-2008 at 07:31 AM.