Just a short note, interupting my “fold equity” series of thoughts. At this time of year the activity levels of online poker sites goes up substantially. College and university students are out of school and others have time off work for the holiday season. The really casual casual players are out in force, meaning more [...]

There used to be a good short stacking strategy on a site called donkeydevastation, but the other day I went to look for it again and the site no longer exists. I think there were a couple of articles on playing both 10BB buyins as well as 20BB buyins. ~ I started playing short stack [...]

So I’ve been focusing on playing short stacked, buying in for 20 BBs, recently added tables so that I’m playing 6 instead of 4 at a time. Having good results, until two days ago. Minor downswing, but it worries me. First there was a minus 8 BB session over 200 hands. Almost not worth considering [...]

Short stack update: Hands: 2200 VP$IP: 11.7 PFR: 7.0 3Bet: 3.6 bb/100: 26.77 = 13.38 BB/100 W$SD: 62.5 Agg: 5.30 Agg%: 27.7 Everything is slightly down from the early stats, which is to be expected as I was aware that I had hit quite a few strong hands during that early run. What surprises me [...]

I pulled out hands to date from my short stacking games, filtered the ones where I went to showdown, eliminated the check down hands to get the ones where I raised and got all-in. Ahead:20; Equity > 50%: 18 Behind: 5; Equity < 50%: 4 Plus one AK vrs 33 and one 99 vrs AJs, [...]

Well, this blog is for myself anyways This is another entry that’s not necessarily of interest to anyone else. I figured out how to merge my stats. So my total short stacking stats so far: Hands: 799 bb/100: 39.42 = 19.71 BB/100 VP$IP: 12.1 PFR: 7.3 3bet%: 4.9 WTSD%: 27.7 W$SD: 67.7 Agg: 6.4 Agg%: [...]