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Short Stack - A player who has fewer chips than the other players at the table, or has proportionally low amount
of chips compared to the cost of the blinds.
In tournament play, the size of a player’s stack is judged by its relative size when compared with the cost of the
blinds every round. Since the cost of the blinds continues to increase over the course of the tournament, players must
continue to acquire chips or they will become short stacked. Being short stacked in a tournament is a huge
disadvantage. It severely limits your betting options, and often requires you to risk all of your chips in order to
draw. It also makes it more difficult
to defend your blinds, and makes you more susceptible to
bluffs. It is also less risky for your
opponents to steal from you when you
are short stacked because you can’t hit them that hard. Because of this, when tournament players get short stacked, they
often will elect to “take a stand” with a less than premium hand in an attempt to acquire chips.
The term “short stack” is also use in cash games. Since the size of the blinds is typically static in a
ring game, the
term is more commonly used to describe the size of a player’s stack, when compared to the other larger stacks on the
table, rather than relative to the size of the blinds.
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