You should pound him PERIOD...in that you should be most happy to be all in on the flop if he has as much as a just-over-pot-sized bet with TPTK...who cares what he has? You don't know if he has a draw, so you can't say something like "should I pound IF he has a draw?" You should just get it all in with TPTK vs short stacks.

Why? Because they're short and that causes drastic changes in strategy for them and, therefore, you...TPTK becomes a monster.

If the short stack has just a pot sized bet left, just put him in with TPTK. Usually the shortie will have a bad pair, a bad draw, and will sometimes call with literally nothing. I've seen times when I've raised preflop, been called by a shortie and when the flop comes AKJ, they will still stack off with 66. The times a shortie will have you beat when you have a decent hand far will be far less for when you either have the shorties dominated or almost drawing dead.

I have such a lack of respect for shorties that if the board is all low cards and I have AK, AQ, I will put them in because in these spots they will usually call with a dominated hand, and will call a decent amount of time with no pair...and of course, the times they fold getting a decent price are nice too(although pretty rare). Shorties play like morons most of the time, so I try to take advantage of that.

The problem I see with draws against shorties is of course, they won't ever fold.

I was basing the "know that someone has AA KK or AK" on VP$iP% and observance.. Didn't mean that I can read minds or cards like a medium... I called today OTB with [Tc] when TA guy raised strong PF. I flopped a nut straight [8s][9c] and it cost him his full stack. He of course held [Ad]. I am not bragging or anything, I just want to say that it would be easy for me to get away from that hand on flop if it would be something like [5c][8s] or something else...

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