The System
The Basics
Our short stacking system starts with buying in for 20 big blinds in a no-limit Hold’em game. If you fall below 14 big blinds you should buy back up to 20 and if you get to 26 big blinds it’s time to leave the table and find a new one because your advantage as a short stack is gone.
If you raise, you will never fold to a single reraise, and will get all of your chips in any time this happens. The only time you can fold after committing chips is when you have a weaker hand and two players have reraised behind you, indicating that one or both of them have a very strong hand.
If a player has already put enough chips in to the pot to put you all-in, then you should be calling with ace-king and a pair of queens or higher.
For more information on how and why the short stack system works, check out the About page
The Charts
To keep things simple the charts are broken up into just a few common situations.
