Recently I have been thinking about this exact thing and am quite glad I stumbled across this forum and found this thread.

The whole reason I was thinking about half stacking is because I was harking back to old Party Poker days when it was the only (or one of the few) site(s) around where you played 50bb poker.

I remember the .25/.50 NL games had a max buy-in of $25, getting in with TpTk was NOT a mistake.

Games were A LOT fishier back then (they were still good once they went to your standard 100bb games, however once people adjusted the games were no where near as good as before).

So, I wanted to see if I could re-create these "golden years" so to speak by playing half stack poker.

I just started doing it the other day and thus far I am happy wiht the results. While I don't have any significant wins to report, I do not have any significant loses either.

I want to put in about 50k hands or so and see what it looks like.

Also, I have noticed that if you stat out short (half stack) once you double up people who saw you buy in short mostly don't adjust to you now wielding a larger stack. They still play at you as if you are a fish with half a stack. So, if the table is good and you double up, tighten up a bit and you'll probably get paid off when you hit a big hand.