Description
Download Jaka Coaching – Mastering Short Stack Play
Mastering Short Stack Play from Jaka Coaching is a complete course on navigating poker tournaments with stacks under 20 big blinds. This series explores the crucial adjustments needed when you are short-stacked, from preflop shove ranges to postflop exploits with limited chips behind. Whether you’re playing 12bb, 15bb, or 20bb, the lessons here give you the frameworks to survive and thrive.
Course Overview
Short stack play is a skill that separates recreational players from serious grinders. With blinds constantly increasing, knowing when to push, fold, or exploit becomes essential. This course combines theoretical shoving ranges with real postflop examples, ensuring you can adapt under pressure. For more short stack tools, see Metagame Poker Gameplan or Saulo Costa Timing Tells.
What You Will Learn
- Short Stack Principles: Navigate 10–25bb deep play with precision.
- Reshove Mastery: Learn when to push back over raises with charts and calculators.
- Postflop Power Plays: How to play 12–20bb in raised pots, both IP and OOP.
- Exploits at 20bb: Using opponent leaks when stacks are shallow.
- River Navigation: When to hero call and when to give up short stacked.
- Final Table Adjustments: 5bb and bubble shoving ranges with antes in play.
Chapters Included
- Short Stack Principles: Navigating 10–25bb
- Crush Your Reshoves
- Calling Reshoves with Calculators
- Open Limping Strategy Pre & Postflop
- Opening Pre + Postflop as a Short Stack
- Chip EV Shoving Range (2–5bb stacks)
- Bubble Shoving Ranges
- Final Table Shoving with Antes
- Playing as the Big Blind with 20bb
- Navigating the River with 20bb
- Maximizing a 12bb Stack
- Strategic Turn Play with 20bb
Why This Matters
Tournament poker is often won and lost with short stacks. Many players study deep stack play but fail to master 15bb situations, which appear constantly in real events. This course helps you execute profitable decisions under pressure, using strategies that professional players rely on. To combine with other exploit-heavy content, check out Run It Once Redline Mastery or Carrot Poker Weapons of War.
Who Should Study This
This program is for tournament players grinding low to high stakes, especially those reaching final tables regularly but unsure how to optimize shallow stacks. Even experienced cash players moving into MTTs will benefit from the shove/fold and exploit modules.
Download Jaka Coaching – Mastering Short Stack Play today and refine your short stack strategy for deeper tournament runs.
