What Not To Do With a Short Stack

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What Not To Do With a Short Stack
短籌碼不能做的事

August 2009|Erick Lindgren
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When you’re on the extreme short stack in a tournament, there isn’t always
a “right” decision to make. You’ll find yourself in a lot of marginal
spots, such as holding A-9 off-suit in early position or maybe holding a
small pair when someone in front of you has already raised. With those hands,
it’s never clear whether the better move is to shove and cross your fingers
or just fold and wait for a better spot.
當你在比賽中處於籌碼極短的情況時，不會永遠有"對的決策"可以做。你將會發
現自己處在很為難的時機，像是在前面的位置拿到A9o，或是拿到小對子可是前面有人先
加注了。在那些情況，要shove還是蓋掉繼續等好牌就不是那麼簡單。

There are, however, some very “wrong” decisions to make when you’re on the
extreme short stack, and I saw one of them on display in a tournament I
played on Full Tilt Poker a short time ago.
然而，短籌碼的情況下有些決策是絕對錯誤的，而我在之前的FTP比賽就看過。


We were at the final table of a tournament with six players remaining, the
blinds were 50k/100k with a 10k ante and I was the chip leader with more than
8,000,000 in chips. The average stack was about 3,000,000, and the player
directly to my right was the shortest stack by far with 811,000.
當時比賽進入final table，還剩六個人。盲注是5萬/10萬、底注1萬，而我是籌
碼最多的人，大約有800萬。平均籌碼約300萬，而我右邊的玩家是short stack，剩下
811k。

When you have eight big blinds, which in this case wasn’t even enough chips
for four revolutions around the table, the logic is simple: You only enter a
pot voluntarily if you have cards that you’re willing to go all the way with
preflop.
當你剩下8BB，籌碼甚至不夠繞個4圈，那打牌邏輯就很簡單了：你只要拿到一手
你自願把所有籌碼在preflop投進pot裡面的牌就好。

On this hand, the short stack entered the pot for a raise to 250,000 under
the gun. The fact that he didn’t just move all in suggested he was being a
little bit tricky. He could have had a monster, or he could have just been
trying to make it look like he had a monster. A lot of players will make that
play with a hand like J-10 suited, hoping other players might call but not
reraise, allowing them to see a fl op. But it’s not a play I endorse. When
you’re down to eight big blinds, you should be playing allin- or-fold poker.
這手牌，這位short stack在UTG的位置raise25萬，他沒有把所有籌碼放進去是
有些詭異。他可能拿到怪物，或者他想讓自己看起來拿到怪物。許多玩家可能會拿JTs
這樣打，希望後面有人call但是不要reraise，好讓他看個flop。但這並不是我贊同的打
法。當你剩下8BB，你應該只能全推或蓋牌。

In any case, I picked up a strong hand, A-Q off-suit. I just went ahead and
moved in my stack, figuring if someone behind me has a bigger hand, so be it,
but I wanted to isolate and try to eliminate the short stack.
任何情況，我拿到強牌，像AQo。我就直接allin，可能後面有人拿更好的牌，但
是我想孤立並且試圖吃掉這個short stack。

And this was when my opponent made an even worse play than raising small
under the gun: He folded to my reraise.
我的對手做了比在UTG小raise還糟的事情：他蓋牌。

There was 1,270,000 in the pot and it would have cost him 561,000 to call.
Folding was simply the wrong play. He should have called with any two cards.
He had already committed too much money to the pot to fold his hand. If he
was getting cute with a medium suited connector, then he was only about a
60/40 underdog. If he was playing a weak ace, then technically he wasn’t
getting the right odds to call, but he would need to know for a fact that he’
s dominated in order to correctly lay his hand down.
pot裡面有127萬，他要花56萬1千去call。蓋牌是明顯的錯誤。他拿任何兩張牌都
應該要call。他已經在pot裡面放太多的籌碼而不能蓋牌了。如果他是中等的同花相連牌
，也只是60/40的劣勢。如果是弱A，那技術上來講他沒有好的odds來call，但是他必須確
信他因為被dominated而蓋牌。

And it’s important to note that I was the big stack and I’d been very
active. He didn’t necessarily have to give me credit for a premium hand.
而且，重要的是我是big stack，我打得很主動。他沒有必要信任我有好牌。

By folding, my opponent left himself with only 561,000 in chips, less than
six big blinds, and the big blind was going to be on him the next hand. He
was going to be forced to take a stand, but he would be doing so for a lot
less money than would have been the case on the previous hand. Instead of
trying his luck against me for a pot of more than 1.8 million, a double-up on
the next hand would only increase his stack to 1.2 million.
蓋牌之後，他只剩56萬1千，少於6BB，而且下一手牌輪他當BB。他正要面臨被迫
allin，但是他在前一手牌早該這樣做了。錯過了試著靠幸運贏到180萬的機會，下一手
他即使double up也只增加到120萬而已。

THE LESSON IS SIMPLE:
When you’re extremely shortstacked, raising and then folding pre-flop
shouldn’t be an option. Either a hand is good enough to play for all of your
chips or you throw it into the muck. The worst thing you can do is attempt
something in between those two extremes.
這個教訓是：
當你籌碼極短的時候，加注然後蓋牌不應該是個選項。不管是拿到足以去allin的牌，
或是看了直接丟掉的牌。最糟糕的就是做出這兩種極端之間的事情。


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