These guys wanted to get in cheaply with a speculative hand hoping to hit a flop, and I was the late-position party pooper who constantly ruined it for everybody.įrom my point of view, these players would likely have raised rather than limped if they held good hands. “You only have one move” was another one I frequently heard from players who did not understand how to adjust to shrinking stack sizes as the blinds increased. That statement was made to me after I’d shoved my 25-big blind stack over multiple limpers for the third time in a tournament I played at Planet Hollywood during the World Series of Poker this past summer. “I mean, do you just not like poker? You know it’s more fun if you see a flop every now and then!” Here are five of the most common blunders we see players make in poker tournaments on the Play WSOP site when short-stacked. The small stakes poker tournaments I play are often profitable because of mistakes others make when short-stacked - even those who are otherwise decent deep-stacked players.
For the purpose of this article, I will define a short stack as 25 big blinds or less when the average player we are up against has considerably more than this.
As tournament players, we constantly find ourselves in situations where we have to play short stack poker.
