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Message: [QUOTE="bluesjunkie, post: 1370156, member: 63745"] It's funny--only since reading the posts on this site(lurking for a while, and now joining) have I even become aware of the short-stacker, as specific entity, and the scourge they are on a full-stacked player. I always buy-in full. They've always been an annoyance, but I didn't realize how many there were OR that they were deliberately buying in short. Didn't realize that their strategy was so pervasive to my full-stack play. But now that I've been made aware of their nefarious ways and means, I find myself taking measures against them... Mostly, if there are more than two or three at a 9player table, I'm gone. Even if I've been crushing the table. If I do stick around, and one of them is in position to "do their thing", I'll take the action away from them by betting their full stack. I wouldn't, of course, do this with garbage(as a steal) because we know they will call with marginal hands... But if I have a hand that I want to play, i.e. a nice middle suited connector, or a middle pocket pair, well, let THEM have to make a decision. I'm sick of 3betting in early position, only to have to fold my JTsuited to a $22 reraise because I MIGHT be behind preflop(the SS WANTS me to fold--hates the showdown...just knows that a good player will protect his stack and not recklessly abandon reason). So if there's no likely caller between me and the villain, and I wanna see a flop, I'm gonna push the action myself for his whole measly stack, rather than wonder if he's pushing with his own mediocre poop. It's the difference, for me, between playing scared(which NEVER works for me) and playing my own thoughtful, confident, tight/agg game. Just my two cents. M [/QUOTE]

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