How to win at poker - The short staking penis way

Ok the story continues. I'll kick off from when I was playing cash. Man I sucked at first. I was up and down like a whores draws at $50NL when i started. Then I read "Sklansky - No Limit Hold em, Theory and practice". One section stuck out. How to play as an effective short stack in a cash game. The theory sounded awesome to me. I'll go over it a little below.

If you have 50BB your options become limited. You cannot play speculative hands, you cannot set mine, you cannot chase draws on the flop. So you have to tighten up, plus, aren't the last 3 things I listed every poker players biggest 3 leaks. Suited connectors, small-med pairs and A rag. They just aren't clever, most people loose a lot with them and short stackers literally can't play them. So you remove bad leaks from your game. Great. :)

But that's not all. You also remove your opponents odds and you remove their weapons. You also pot commit them much more easily. You opponents cannot set mine profitably against you in a pot with any size raise, they cannot 3 bet or 4 bet bluff you pre flop (most of the time, some donks do), because you will shove and once you 3 bet, you ain't folding. They cannot chase draws against you profitably, they just don't have the implied odds. Basically the good players have an absolute nightmare against you if you are a good short stacker. You will frustrate and annoy them, they will raise AK, you will call TT or even 3 bet, then what do they do on a low flop, they can't fold, you just haven't got enough left and they have pot odds with 2 overs for 6 outs. So you mostly get your money in good.

The bad players are a different story, but that's better. They have no idea your paying tight. They will call you light left right and center and stack off time after time.

Short stacking also makes you tilt less. Your generally in a lot on the flop, opponents don't chase miracle draws and hit and you are the one dishing the pain. Even if you do tilt, you can't tilt properly because if you raise 67s and you miss the flop, it checks to you and you bet and someone calls. What the fuck do you do, you can't scare them, so you check/fold the turn.

I started short stacking and within 3 months I turned $900 into $6000 and another month into $9000. I was good at short stacking, I was great in fact. No one could play against it. I was unbeatable, I ran awesome and times were good.

Then i tried to beat the game full stacked. That wasn't so good. I did tilt, I tilted lots. I still tilt now full stacked.

So here's where my story hits today. I cashed out my bank roll before and took a break. I came back and again i'm stuck at $50 NL. Up and down, up and down. Like a yo yo, always up and down.

So what did I do today? That's right. I busted out some short stacking at $100NL. I made $166, 8 BB/100 (pretty nice win rate) and i enjoyed it. For the first time since my break I felt good about poker again, really good. Maybe i'm just destined to be a short stacking penis all my life (short stacking penis is what wota calls short stacks when he can't fold his 2 overs on a low flop to a short stack), maybe I was meant to be a shortstacker.

Fuck it makes money, so why not? :)

I'd rather be a rich short stacking penis than a poor full stacking donk. Amen to that.