Quote Originally Posted by LimpinAintEZ
Quote Originally Posted by Krieg1984
Point is that for many players, playing a short stack is better, because it gets rid of all the difficult play on fourth and fifth street. In our first example we are all-in on the flop and get called (probably correctly so) by TPGK.
sorry, but poker is supposed to be about making tough decisions - And the short stack Ninja thing might work better for larger games, but the short stackers in the 25NL games are morons, IMO - they are buying in short because they are scared and don't have the bankroll - for me, personally, the more mistakes I made, the more I learn...and when i lose a stack, it bothers me but i try to figure out why and what i could have done...if im playing with a short stack im not maximizing wins, nor am i pushing anyone out of the pot -
I don't think you understood all of my post...

I've already stated that very good deep stacked players would make much less playing short. The main reasons they play deep are:
a) many bad players play deep as well, and winning 100+bb off a guy who donks off with TPNK is much better than winning 20-40bb.
b) they know how to get away from a hand when a big pot is forming, or vice versa, when to push a hand strongly in a big pot. Tight, efficient, short stack play keeps one out of trouble, but their hand reading skills/experience allows them to take the odds they like and refuse the ones they don't. It's smart gambling.
c) they want to get better. Deep stack play makes fourth and fifth street play much more important. They do this so that (b) becomes more reinforced.

Playing short eliminates difficult decisions, and although is not as profitable to a great player as playing deep, it makes some tough games surprisingly beatable.

And when you say poker is about making difficult decisions, well, that's just your view of the game. It's the way you handle it and how you want to progress as a player. That's perfectly ok. Just remember that from a theoretical standpoint, you want to spend most of the time making easy decisions, while forcing your opponents to make difficult ones. That's the heart of good NL poker.