Short stacked NL cash game

[floptquadswunc]

Here in Florida you can play 2-5 NL legally, but you cannot buy in for more than $100. So, you have 20 BB's, and a lot of loooooooose play in front of you.

What strategy would you recommend if you are one to the left of a guy who raises 4x BB about 4 times per round. How would that strategy change as you move from EP, to MP, and finally LP.

Keep in mind, when this guy raises to 20 he generally gets one or two callers. These callers can have a very wide range of hands.

The game is new so no one has more than a couple hundred in front of them, including the aggr guy to your right. Suggestions? (moving to Ca is not an option.)

[Parasurama]

How light are people calling 3bet shoves?

[Fnord]

Big cards, shove flops. Get anally raped by the rake.

Oh and 22-77 are dogshit unless you're over-limping the button or completeing the SB or closing the action from the BB or something.

[floptquadswunc]

The others are not calling a 3 bet shove unless they have the goods (AK, 99-AA, maybe AQ). So, I guess if I'm in LP I should be 3 betting with what??

Yesterday, a different guy (who also raised more than his fair share) called my 3 bet shove with A-Q. I didn't mind because I had AA in the SB.

It feels wrong to call 20 pre-flop with such a short stack, it feels wrong to call at all but limpers actually. So, I sit there playing tight, and practically want to hang myself from boredom.

It's not a bad game if there is not a lot of pre-flop raising though. You can limp along and then play the hand out. When that happens it becomes like a 10-20 limit game, and a knowledgable player can make correct bet sizes, play his/her reads, and make some decent money. Not optimal, but profitable.

Also, one more thing, other players obviously realize when someone is raising too often. They then just trap like silly and usually get the raiser pot committed so someone doubles up. I don't raise, for deception, very often any more unless I have great position and few limpers in front of me.

I guess it's like a re-buy tourney where everyone is short stacked. It's weird.

Any other thoughts that I may be overlooking? It's like the government of Fl has stated "The only winner in this game will be the House". They're always looking out for us poor, sad, and degenerate gamblers.

The state protects the fish (sort of) with the cap on the buy in. All the while they stick it elbow deep to everyone by allowing monopolies. It's almost comical really. Cardrooms give nothing away because each one is the only legal room for a hundred miles.

Would the government knowingly screw us?