Can someone please tell me...

Why it seems when you (or anyone for that matter) is short stacked in a tourney, they lose. Doesn't matter if they have High pocket, but they are definitely favoured in the hand, almost EVERY time the short stacked player loses. I suppose its the computer program running the game, just trying to widdle down the field, but when you do have a beat and you become short stacked in a large tourney - how can you come back??? I find that if you don't push all in, you have a better shot at coming back, because as soon as you get a caller in an all in the games over.

Anybody else notice this, or have any tactics for surviving in a tourney on a short stack????

Any help would be appreciated.
Babydeed

my tactic is not to play at jokerstars, that's for sure.

I got lee jownesed


welcome to ftr

Is it just on Pokerstars? It seems like once I lose a few chips I know I'm gonna be gone, my only tactic at that point is to try to push someone all in against me with an even shorter stack - and thats tough lol - If this doesn't happen as often on other sites then maybe I should be switching.

Oh, Babydee2paws.

Originally Posted by biondino

Oh, Babydee2paws.

huh?

RIGGED

In all seriousness though, I constantly win with a short stack. It's like they won't let anyone eliminate me. How can I bust? I find that if I don't push all in, and just sit out eating cupcakes staring at the screen, eventually I just dissapear.

Originally Posted by biondino

Oh, Babydee2paws, it's all in your head

Short answer: you're imagining it. The way the brain works, when something you expect to happens happens, you don't even notice it. When something you don't expect to happen happens, ESPECIALLY if that thing is negative, then you notice it.

short stacks get elimated by virtue of being sgort stacked, meaning they cannot absorve a hit.
Lets say shortstack player has to double up twice to be average stack, even if he goes in twice as 60:40 he has only 36% to rebound

another thing that I think happen a lot is that short stack often do not do the mental switch back from being short stacked to mid stack, and then take unneccessary risks and get elimated on coinflips

Short stacks get stacked a lot more because they have to be all in more often than big stacks, because big stacks like to flip with short stacks in order to profit from dead money (blinds).

bad programming

You need to join the paid subscription Pokerstars MTT Club. I can't find my link to it at the moment. It's costs $50/month, but it gets you perferential treatment on all the tables. You hit your draws alot more often, and flop sets like madddd!!!

Not many people know about it, but I signed up last year and won alot (short stack or stack leader, didn't matter).

Anyone know where that link is??


... if you believe this then you need to find another hobby. You're letting your perceptions be influenced by situtational observations. You notice when the short stack gets knocked out (I assume with the better hand preflop) and not noticing when they double up. AND you are discounting the fact that 2 unpaired cards (even overcards) aren't that huge an advantage over any other 2 unpaired cards. What are the odds that that 2:3 or something, 3:5?? And if you're a really short stack and get multiple callers your odds drop quickly. But, really, if you think poker sites are rigged you need to play Monopoly or something. Why would you put your money into a rigged game?

Finally, if you think that's the case then call any short stack with any cards as the big stack. If the site is skewed in favor of big stacks, then you'll be golden!!