playing short stacked

#1 19th October 2006, 3:55 PM

Just curious how you would play in the given scenarios:

Say you are the short stack with $800 in chips left with the blinds $300-$600. 3 more hands before you are the big blind. No callers so $900 in the pot. What type of hand would play?

or

1 caller putting $1500 in the pot? caller seems LAG

or

2 callers putting $2100 in the pot? One caller TAG, no read on the other caller

or

a big raise / all-in putting $2500+ in the pot? No reads.

I find myself very undeceive in these situations. I don’t know if I should rely solely on odds when I’m soon to be blinded out.

#2 19th October 2006, 11:48 PM

If you let yourself get to less than 5 BB's, then your only move is to put it all-in in most situations with almost any two cards pre-flop. Your stack is not large enough to push anyone off the pot and if you are raised when you limp in then you are committed to the pot.

#3 20th October 2006, 6:21 PM

if you only got $800. left and the blinds are coming you have to take a chance and go allin with ANY 2 cards,, i can hardly read your print, why is it so small????>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> buck

#4 20th October 2006, 10:51 PM

Don`t get so low, if you can possibly help it.

As soon as you get to 5 BBs or less, go all-in the first time you pull any Ace, any King, or any Pair.

If you let it get much lower than that, you`re still going to be in trouble even if you win, and you`re going to have to keep going all-in with weak hands until you get knocked out.

#5 21st October 2006, 1:15 PM

Like Egon said, if you can help it, you desperately need to not let it get that low. If you got that way because you lost a lot of chips in a big hand, that's alright, but if you get that shortstacked from waiting for hands, you're making a mistake. If you can at all help it you want to push when you've got enough chips to keep marginal and raggedy hands from calling you.

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