Managing Your Short Stack, by Mark Vos

In this article Mark Vos teaches you how to act when you start to be short of points in a No Limit tournament. Have no doubt: all-in. Some time ago I won the event $ 2,000 No Limit Hold'em World Series of Poker. It's a great honor to have the bracelet. Of course I took $ 800,000 were also big. For most of the tournament I was short stack. But I think I played my short stack well and in this article I will share some of the things I think about playing short stack. The key to my survival was in short stack I was able to steal enough pots to stay alive. There was only one move that might make: all-in and wait until everyone is pulled. It worked, although I did not have good cards most of the day. There were a couple of reasons my steals worked. The first was that I was very careful not to let down my stack of 7 or 8 big blinds. In No Limit tournament is very important when you have to steal at least 10 big blinds. If the average stack is between 20 and 25 big blinds, which is normal in the later stages of a tournament, and going all in for 8 or more big blinds, only very strong hands will make you call.

Your opponents are not going to risk losing shortstack become a confrontation, so you will have a tremendous fold equity.

If your stack down to the point of having only 5 or 6 big blinds are much more likely to get paid. This is why you have to be attentive to the size of your stack and where is the button. If you have 8 big blinds and you're in middle position, you should restart your chance to find and steal before you reach the blinds. While you're short stack you also have a tight image. You want everyone to think you're patiently waiting for a strong hand. If you can give the impression you get the respect you table, increasing the likelihood that your opponents are thrown when you go all-in. When I do not care shortstack all-in in early position, even when I am under-the-gun. I did this often in the tournament at the WSOP and won, so even when I was away. It worked well. He had a tight image, so an all-in on early indications were that he had something very good. Unless someone had pair of queens or kings were likely to take me to these important blinds and antes. When you are short stack you need to stay alive while waiting for decent cards.

The key is to find situations in which your opponents will probably be shot. If you keep your stack above 8 blind, I think a tight image and go all in from different positions, have a good chance to steal enough pots to stay alive in the tournament. Hopefully, things will come your way and you hands on some good hands with the q can raise your stack and take the tournament. Source: The Hendon Mob.

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