1/2 NLHE, Short Stack

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This is more of a general question...

Ok I play every so often in Atlantic City. I usually buy in for around 50 BB's because that's basically what I can afford to do. I consider it short stack, but wanted some advice.

You are sitting in the small blind or big blind and pick up a hand such as AK, AQ and there are 5-6 limpers, what amount are you raising and what's your play post flop if you get quite a few limpers.

At a lot of these tables I may raise to 15-20 and get at least two callers. I feel this puts me in terrible shape for a c-bet (this entire play ends up costing half of my stack...wrong way to look at it?) if my A or K doesn't hit, because I am down quite a few at these loose aggressive tables and if I hit my A or K I might not get any action anyways.

Anyone have any insight into this situation or have any advice/articles/books on short stack cash game?

Should I maybe buy in for even less (30 BB's...the min allowed) and just be pushing in these situations?
 
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With 50 bb's, and a 24$ pot, you can make a potsized raise here. Pump it to ~30$, and put the remaining 70$ in on most every flop.
 
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Well the pots more like $14 or so if they just limp for $2, but I see what you're saying.

Well I might buy in for an extremely short stack ($60) to see if that helps getting my all in's called more easily. That way I can push over these limped pots with a better chance of getting called by worse hands, since in most of those players minds its only $50 or so....

Eh, I'll let you guys know what happens, I'm going down to play tonight before I hit up the beach and I'll keep record of problem hands or things I see/need help with.
 
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Yeah, I totally realized that my math was terrible about 2 seconds ago.

With the pot being ~14ish, that gives us a fairly awkward stack size. But even still, you'd probably get callers with a raise of that size ^_^.

Yeah, I think I'd buy in for like a 30 big blind stack, since most likely it will get bigger and you'll get into that funny 60 bb stack area anyways fairly soon. And live games are loose & limpy, so you certainly want the ability to get most of the way in preflop and capitalize on their looseness preflop.
 
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just my two cents, i would prefer to have at or near the max buyin for this table. most people that i have played with start with 300, and reload when broke. your starting with a short enough stack that as you said your self, you dont feel like you have enough to play with if you miss your flop. you really need a bigger starting stack. i mean how you gonna get paid off on your big hands if you have like 50-100 bucks and the guy has over 300? just my thoughts. best of luck to you.
 
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