February Short Stacking Thread

[floppinthenuts]

Ok so the game plan is to 16 table $25NLHE FR for the min buy of $8.75 and use an aggressive short stack strategy to see how it goes. I will try and do 2 hours mon-fri and a few more on the weekends with time permitting. Will also post graphs every week or so. Still working on the strategy so I wont count January sessions in this, but hopefully by Feb I will have my game plan ready to go.

Attached is a graph of the first 3k hands... bb/100 is 1.36 and I expect it to go up a bit b/c I have been running a bit under my all in ev and tbh havent fully worked out my game plan strategy yet... but nonetheless gl me lol

[msuduster]

Nasty dip towards the end but with the volume of hands you play it should even out and that's a pretty low variance strategy.

[floppinthenuts]

the dip at the end is definitely frustrating, as i lost basically 4 flips (i was slightly ahead on each one)... but obv have to expect that im going to lose some, and like you said hopefully it'll even out long run

[Fabrizio]

Why don't you consider to buy-in the shallow $0.10/0.25 tables with $9 given that the maximum buy-in is $10 so you won't have to start every game with a less than average stack?

[msuduster]

Why don't you consider to buy-in the shallow
$0.10/0.25 tables with $9 given that the maximum buy-in is $10 so you won't have to start every game with a less than average stack?

I think he's shortstacking as a playing strategy.

[floppinthenuts]

Why don't you consider to buy-in the shallow $0.10/0.25 tables with $9 given that the maximum buy-in is $10 so you won't have to start every game with a less than average stack?

I thought about that, but for a few reasons (none of them great) I decided to stay with the reg tables:

1) Volume: much easier to find 16 tables of regular as opposed to shallow running. i've noticed too the shallow tables break up really quickly
2) Stack sizes: might sound contradictory, but with $8.75 i can almost always double up as the majority of them have more than 35bb's, where as shallow tables the majority of them buy in with $5
3) Different play: I'm basically shoving or folding pf. It may sound crazy, but there was some player from Russia who made a killing doing this, and leaving when he doubled up. I 3 bet shove really light and open shove on the sb, button or co to collect the blinds / dead money. A lot of people that play $25nlhe fr are nits, so they fold alot of the time. In shallow play, people only have $5 (often), and call down a lot lighter, so it wont work as much.

I'll be starting up again on Friday and will hopefully post another graph or so on Monday if I can hit 10k hands

[msuduster]

10k hands from Friday to Sunday night??

[floppinthenuts]

10k hands from Friday to Sunday night??

already including the 3300 hands or so i've posted, so about 6700 hands or 2 hours a day at 16 tables. Also, I just realized it's not February yet, but let's just say I'm getting a head start

[msuduster]

Oh ok that's manageable.

[ravensfan929]

So am i gettin this plan right? ur gonna play 16 tables at a time? Your graph was looking great until that dip at the end but as u said u were ahead in 4 big hands that caused that so u cant really complain as ur gettin ur money in wit the best of it, but i think u can turn that around and think ur next graph will show less dips in it.