A lot of poker players around here, and a lot of low limit players, abhor short stacking. Especially at the lower limits, this boggles me. It is true that a smart shortstacker can be a thorn in your side when he sits behind you (and plays properly), but by and large, at low limits, most shortstackers are fucking terrible at shortstacking and are the easiest money on the table.
They don't ruin the game or make it so you can't play poker. You simply have to adapt and recognize how they are going to affect the game. If that means you can't open as many hands to isolate the fish on your right, that sucks, but it's part of poker. (And incidentally, if they are hurting you but helping themselves, doesn't that mean they ARE playing better poker?)
The unwarranted loathing of shortstackers is going to seriously hurt the game. FTPDoug has said in his latest "FTP Answers" thread on the Internet Gambling forum of 2+2 that Full Tilt has plans to take action against the "shortstacking problem." So congratulations, you are getting rid of the shortstackers. You want to play "real poker" instead of make the easiest money in your life.
Instead of sitting at the 50bb minimum tables, you've fucked yourself and the community.
This is not a problem for me thankfully, because I have little enough ego in my poker to simply go where the money is. If they move sites, I will move sites. If they play lower, I will play lower. In short, I will do what I always do when I encounter a shortstacker: I will figure out how best to take his money, and then I will take his money.
So take a lesson from me: Let go of your ego, respect shorties for what they are, and put on your big girl panties and learn to deal with it.
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