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I’m making the transition to a full time video blog now.  Give me feedback guys!  Tell me what you think.

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When A Slow Night Goes Bad - Short Stack Update

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Week 2 Better Than Week 1

The play in week two of the Short Stack Challenge has solidified some of the thoughts I had after week one.  My play was limited to only two days but I found that I was much more successful than last week.

Keeping my stack at a minimum of 20BB’s helped facilitate a quicker move up in levels.  Where I might have had to double up twice last week due to losing money in the blinds, this week a single double up would allow me to move on to the next level.  Using that strategy I was able to hit the 1/2 level which I was unable to obtain in week one.

Playing only premium hands helped keep the guess work out of the equation.  That made the play easier but also much less fulfilling and also much more boring.  It does appear to be the formula for success as a short stacker at this point so that’s what I’ll keep doing.

I started the week $18 in the hole but managed to come out $20 up.  That means I’ll be starting at the .5/1 tables instead of the .25/.50 when I begin play this week.

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Bet You Wish You Were This Good

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Short Stack Challenge Week 1

Week one did not go as swimmingly as I had hoped. Ending the week down $36 after starting on an upswing was a little disheartening.  I did manage to try a few different strategies though and I’m going to work on refining a few things during week 2.

To start with, only play solid starting hands.  When playing short stack you simply don’t have the chips to try anything speculative.  Sure you might get lucky and hit something for a big pot, but if your looking to get lucky with a hand, don’t play it.

Twenty big bets is enough to see a flop for a standard raise but if nothing pans out on the flop you simply don’t have the chips to continue with the hand.

Other players will call your all in with weak holdings.  Try to get all in as soon as possible in the hand.  Preflop is fine but the flop is better.

That’s it, I’ll incorporate these items for this week and see how it goes.

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Video Post Short Stack Challenge Update

I don’t seem to have much time to write anymore so I’m going to start doing more video updates.  Here is the first one, if you can’t see it in RSS (I’ll try to fix it) then please visit the site.

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Short Stack Challenge

Ok, so it’s time to have a little purpose to my play.

Here’s the plan:

• Start with $200 bankroll
• initial buy-in $10 at .25/.50 NL table
• Double up and move onto next level
• pocket any additional winnings beyond doubling of buy-in (ie. buy in for $10 win a hand putting stake at $25.  Pocket $5 and take $20 to the .50/1.00 NL table)
• continue attempts until doubling up at 5/10 level
• Settle in at 5/10 and continue playing (or until getting bored or going broke whichever comes first)

If I manage to learn anything along the way I’ll be sure to share it with you.  But as you all know, don’t count on me learning anything.

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