Deitch on Poker: Playing with Short Stack Requires Patience
However, how many times do you see a final table where a player with the short stack and his back against the wall ends up winning? And how often do you see a player with a seemingly insurmountable lead somehow give all of those chips back?
A perfect example was the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event. With seven players remaining and the blinds at $80,000/$160,000 with $20,000 antes, Joseph Hachem was the short stack with $2.45 million chips remaining, while chip leader Andy Black had $18.23 million chips, which was about $7.5 million more than the next player. That meant Hachem would put in one-sixth of his stack every time around the table, so he definitely had to have a short-stack mentality.
May 31, 2006
Posted By Skip Davis
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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