Advantages of sitting "short stacked" in a game

[Aequitas58]

Although I like your logic, I think it is flawed. Sitting with less than the max buy-in based on your representations above makes me wonder a two questions, right off the bat:

1. OTHER HANDS. You may have easier decisions when it comes to Aces or Kings, but what happens when you get in cheap with a small pocket pair, and you hit a set against Lagtard with either a strong flush draw or a two pair-made hand? From an implied odds perspective, you may be missing some bets when you should be stacking people and raking gi-gan-tor pots.

2. MULTIWAY ACTION. Your examples above deal with HU action. With other players in the hand, the calculations become more complex, but there are other ways to win the hand... Isolation plays, Squeeze plays, etc... but these are more difficult b/c of your shorter stack.

Another way to think about it:

If short(er) stack play was as good as you suggest, pros would do it.
Pros don't do it, or advocate it.
Your logic isn't as good as you suggest.

[Zybomb]

Two quick bold comments

[Talking Poker]

Fuzzy math here.

Quick reply: I'm with Aeq.

[Aequitas58]

My first example doesn't assume that we stack a player when we hit our set, it merely suggests a situation with somewhat of a likely probability with two sickishly deep stacks.