In an effort to bring the game of poker back to its online poker cash tables (as distinct from a roll-of-the-dice which is an entirely different game), Cake Poker is squeezing out short-stacked players from its cash tables by raising the minimum buy-in to sit down at one to 30 Big Blinds.
In order to sit down at any Cake Poker cash game table, you need to buy-in with a minimum bankroll of chips in front of you. A short-stacked player is one who sits down at a cash table with that absolutely minimum buy-in possible, which makes for a very unbalanced table, considering most everyone else has the decency to put several times more than that at stake before they sit in.
The problem with the short-stacked player is that he stands to gain more from everyone else than they stand to gain from him. The short stacked player tends to be taking an easy crapshoot of a chance to double up their stack by waiting for ideal hands before putting anything at stake, while to the other players the short-stacked player’s chip stack makes them as good as an empty chair.
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Mon, Apr 5, 2010
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