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Introduction:
Playing Short-Handed

Many players who become reasonably good at holdem have trouble when playing short-handed.

They discover that their tight but aggressive style doesn’t seem to be successful anymore.

Furthermore, the “live” players who play too many hands and go too far with their hands all of a sudden seem to be much tougher opponents.

Even though they play the same, instead of being easy prey, these live players now seem to be taking down the money.

As we will soon see short-handed play is very different from normal ring game play.

Part of he reason for this is that you are forced to play online poker many more hands than you do at a full table.

You won’t have many players to act behind you, and the flop often doesn’t hit anyone.

Short-handed play can also be a lot of fun.

At a full table, especially if the game is aggressive, you will have to do a great deal of watching and waiting.

This is not the case when playing short-handed.

But for those of you who think that the best poker strategy is to “fire chips with both hands” you will also be surprised.

A lot of skill is required to be a winning short-handed player, and this section will show you how it is done.