"Surviving as a Short Stack in a Poker Tournament: Key Strategies to Stay Alive"

[minhluhoc]

When you're short-stacked in a poker tournament, your options become limited, and each decision becomes crucial. The key is to shift your strategy to maximize your chances of survival while looking for opportunities to double up. Focus on playing aggressively in late positions with hands that have strong potential, such as high pairs or suited connectors. Avoid getting involved in marginal hands that could drain your remaining chips. It’s also important to observe the table dynamics and identify weaker players or situations where you can push all-in to steal blinds and antes. By being selective and assertive, you can leverage your short stack to stay in the game and potentially mount a comeback.

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[pirateglenn]

Its the right strategy - it does however depend on the tournament type - if its PKO then you have little chance of making a comeback if short stacked on a table where everyone covers you as you will be hunted, however it is not impossible as a triple up can move the pressure elsewhere. In a MTT without doubt what you have stated has value, as a SS who plays in late position, again players will call you with wide ranges as they all know what you are doing and possibly the range at which you are shoving on.
The beauty of your method that works really well is when you are on a table and there are other SS...maximizing position and also putting pressure on other SS can really work well.

 

[fundiver199]

Playing a short stack is a lot about understanding the push-fold game. And as you say also paying attention to the dynamics of the table. For instance if you have a 15-20BB stack, you should generally min-raise hands, you want to play. But if you think, one or more players behind are going to 3-bet you a lot, and you will have to fold to their 3-bet, then maybe you dont open in the first place.

You should also look for spots to jam over other players opens, but before doing so you should ask yourself, if you have fold equity. A hand like QJs is a great rejam, if the original raiser will fold, but not so much, if they will always call. Maybe they raised to 3BB, and they only have 7BB left behind, so you dont think, they have any raise-fold range at all. Or maybe they just hate folding to 3-bets, and you have reliable information about this from a HUD.

 

[millya5]

Oh this is a difficult case for me. I've watched Victor-od play many times. I want to say that you can learn from him . In such a situation, his tactics help me . The most important thing is not to despair and be patient.