guys that play with a stack of like $1.21 at 10nl

[Danh Bai]

When I play 10nl, these guys that play with a stack of like $1.21 are starting to really annoy me. I've got a decent hand like wired 6's or KQs and i'd like to play them but i get one of these moron short stacks raising and it's like what to maybe win your $1? Any strategies with these guys?

[Parasurama]

Yeah they used to bother me before I realized that nearly all of them are terrible. Against an unknown with 10-15 BB in full ring I'll get AI preflop against them with AQ+, 88+. If they've shown down some worse hands I like to gamble with them more. The ones that are brutally nitty are the ones that annoy me the most now, especially if they have position on me.

[jackvance]

Well it's not like this is 10/20 where the shortstackers are using near perfect push-and-fold strategies; These guys mostly just suck so either you bust them or if they get lucky for a bit and accumulate a bigger stack, it's easy to take it all away from them.

[Ragnar4]

Well it's not like this is 10/20 where the shortstackers are using near perfect push-and-fold strategies; These guys mostly just suck so either you bust them or if they get lucky for a bit and accumulate a bigger stack, it's easy to take it all away from them.

Unless they hit and run.

That's the huge problem with supershorties. The strategy they play with advocates a really tight push-fold strategy that once they get above a certain size of stack, they leave and re-buy at a new table.

The idiots are the ones who don't leave after they get your stack.

[jackvance]

Well it's not like this is 10/20 where the shortstackers are using near perfect push-and-fold strategies; These guys mostly just suck so either you bust them or if they get lucky for a bit and accumulate a bigger stack, it's easy to take it all away from them.

Unless they hit and run.

That's the huge problem with supershorties. The strategy they play with advocates a really tight push-fold strategy that once they get above a certain size of stack, they leave and re-buy at a new table.

The idiots are the ones who don't leave after they get your stack.

Not a heck of a lot of ratholing at the micros tbh

[poker_pup]

My table selection strategy involves looking for tables with lots of short stacks. Easy money.

Just forget about playing low pocket pairs against them and wait for a better hand. You'll have their stack soon enough.

I steal their blinds
what are they going to do, adjust? ROFL

[oskar]

Knowing some tournament strategy helps - like knowing what is profitable for them to shove. But then you're probably loosing some value against the retards.
If they are ratholers I'd try really hard to avoid them. If there are more than 2 of them at FR, I would not play that table because it makes the game dynamic awkward. But then other players make a lot of retarded mistakes playing with sidepots, so...

[Illfavor]

In 6max, against these guys, I tend to play fewer implied odds hands (SCs, low pairs) and more top pair hands (K9s+, A7+, 88+) if they're in my blinds. Depending on the hand I usually don't mind a shove over if it's going to be heads-up. All it takes is to see them do it with A3o once, and you can call them wider. In earlier position again just fewer implied odds hands and more TP hands. Seems to work for me.