help me stop losing money to nits please

[CBAT]

Good short stackers on your left is torture!

[PapalRage]

Good short stackers on your left is torture!

Not at all. Being OOP is an issue postflop and playing shorties is mostly preflop play.

Don't have static opening sizes (it should change depending on your position, effective stack sizes, if there are fish, etc... not just if someone limped) and static opening ranges (see above) and you should be able to crush shorties. The 'good' ones obvi use a hud but if your 'actual' opening range against them + the specific opponents around them is off from the numbers they see, they will make big errors.

note: i put 'actual' in ' ' because it should be constantly in flux in case i wasn't clear.

as for the hand: I don't really know how 50bb games play, but I would guess that folding a set with 50bb effective is generally a bad play. Also, your raise size sets up weird stacks if he flatted. Roughly 75 left with a 50 pot. I'd probably raise smaller because a nit continues with only one draw combo (KQss).

[Micro2Macro]

Not at all

if you've ever played against very good short stackers, you would think otherwise.

however, they don't exist below 400nl and typically stick to 6max rather than full ring, so generally speaking we should prefer them on our left in this case because its very likely they are just playing really nitty and are essentially an empty seat.

[PapalRage]

if you've ever played against very good short stackers, you would think otherwise.

however, they don't exist below 400nl and typically stick to 6max rather than full ring, so generally speaking we should prefer them on our left in this case because its very likely they are just playing really nitty and are essentially an empty seat.

I see what you are saying, but playing against "very good" short stackers, half stackers, or full stackers on our left is going to be extremely hard. Is it better to have "very good" full stack regs on our left? Maybe so, but its a silly question to try and answer because you would never choose to sit in a seat because a very good player has position on it.

[Micro2Macro]

yeah basically having anyone good to your left sucks, or anyone bad that never folds.