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Message: [QUOTE="ph_il, post: 1389597, member: 508"] Really? What were the blinds at at this point of the game? I'm assuming they're pretty high, maybe around 50/100 or so. Anyway, you say you played over 40 hands at 3 handed. To simply things, we'll say it was 45 hands at 3 handed, that means 30/45 hands, SB and BB were paid. Now, if you 2x as much as the short stack, you were raising the SS blinds, and facing the big stack's all in constantly, then there are a few easy solutions to this. A) Wait out the short stack to to bust out. Stop trying to steal from the short stack so much if you know you're going to fold to a big stack shove. You're just throwing chips away. B) Wait for a decent hand, raise, get shoved, call, and hope for the best. To me it looks like they weren't colluding (as you think). To me, it looks big stack is playing is stack perfectly. He sees you're raise/folding a lot and he's taking advantage of that. You probably don't want to get KO'd in 3rd and you're not willing to hrisk calling an all in. So, he's picking up pot after pot from you and you're just making it easier for him. Also, if you're doubling up to only 10-15 BBs, that's telling me that you're shoving when you have 5-8 BBs left at 3 handed. So, what does this tell me? Well, either you're raised/folded yourself down to a short stack. If that's the case, you probably didn't learn after the 4th or 5th time it happened, continued to do so, and brought yourself this low. Or you're playing way too tight 3 handed; maybe in 'fear' of getting KO'd in 3rd when you're almost guaranteed a 2nd place finish. Or maybe its a combination of both. Regardless, if you're 3 handed and at the point were you're stack is dropping to less than 8BBs before you decided to shove, that's a huge leak in your game... Edit: I just saw this While this does change a bit of what i said above, it doesn't say much. It does, however, point out a huge flaw in your game. You're raising a short stack with a 10-12BB stack of your own and folding to a shove. Um...why are you raising here? With a stack of your size, a standard 3-4x raise is going to cost you at a 1/4-1/3 of your stack. Way too much to put in and then fold. No wonder you've found yourself so short so easily. With a stack this size, your only option is to shove it in. Raise/fold is too passive with a short stack and 3 handed. Plug your leaks. [/QUOTE]

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