being short stacked

[bakreni12]

fold end all in on every good hand

[TARGI]

waiting for good hans end all in end again

[snklzona]

Playing short stack is a important aspect of becoming an all around great player...position is key as well as knowing players around you...

[abwil2]

playing short stacked really makes all decisions very easy, fold or push

[AAallday]

How to play with a short stack.
Having a short stack means that you have less room to make plays at the poker table. Bluffs and advanced moves (like float plays) are formed from being able to make educated checks, bets, calls and raises on each round of the hand, so having a short stack will reduce and sometimes eliminate any room for special manoeuvres by both you and your opponents.

Furthermore, the general structure of a no limit Texas Holdem game is that the bigger bets will be made on the turn and river, as the preflop and flop rounds are usually set-up rounds that build the pot and prepare the hand for action. The fact that we have a short stack means that we will rarely be making it past the flop in terms of betting as we will not having enough chips to continue.

With a short stack, most (or all) of the action will be taking place on the preflop and flop betting rounds.

Hands to play when short-stacked.
The fact that we have little room for movement and that our betting will cease at the flop means that we should be playing big heavy hitting hands that will make strong hands at the flop, rather than smaller hands that have ‘potential’.

We should avoid hands like suited connectors and small pocket pairs, as these hands are profitable when we have a deep stack, as our implied odds are there to compensate for the likely event that we miss the flop. In general we are best entering pots with are big suited cards that can make top pair or better at the flop, although we should exercise some flexibility in starting hand selection depending on the size of our short stack.

Below is a table of the hands we should be looking to play depending on our situation:

Very good info Dave Sklansky has some good theory on tournament poker and how to play as your stack size changes in relation to others and the blinds.

[JoeSchmo]

nice copy n paste job yo, at least include the table next time.

[wagon596]

Sometimes I don't mind playing the shortstack,,, it becomes all-in or fold >

[ph0n3_j4ck]

shortstacked in cash games is annoying, but for tournaments, shortstack is alright cause its just AI or fold.

[bigbossman]

Any idiot can play a big stack but only true grinders and poker players can play a short stack. It just takes patients man but also you have to be fearless if you are short really you have nothing to lose