so much of short stack strategy can be based heavily in math (i guess it all can), and lots of decisions at this size are sort of binary…like it's either right or wrong. it's sort of difficult to be in between (it feels this way to me) or have multiple options available because everything is a huge chunk of your stack, and at that point becomes really easy to see +ev or -ev. I think doing this math or even showing that it (this would be ranges for stealing, ranges for restealing, ranges for restealing vs adjusted ranges, open shoving vs adjusted ranges) exists would be greatly beneficial to anyone not familiar with it already. i know some profitable players who have developed intuitively what to do at these stack sizes but clearly have obvious (in my eyes) leaks.

It's really interesting to me because things that are obvious are only so because of your experiences leading up to that point. Known unknowns and all that. 

Man. I love this stack size haha. If you don't find someone that wants to make this video series, I know a guy 😉

Calling 3b shoves is something I've actually explored quite a bit on my own. It requires understanding of the type of villain you have (as all decisions are ha) to get their ranges, then throwing them with your own range. Personally, one of the most gratifying feelings for me as a tournament player is raise/calling someone's shove with a range that's profitable against their own, and they won't even notice!

little tid bit for when you have a player likely to flat with AA to induce further action and instead they just 3b shove. They're almost capped. You can remove some number of combos of KK+ and actually find out just how many bb your initial open profits and INCLUDE the tree branch off where you have an opponent shove over.

With some hands this is easy, like AQ, TT, QQ. Others, it kinda gets close…and it becomes especially tiring when you then add suited any number of suited blocker hands (think A5s) to their ranges. It becomes a lot easier to use a calculator program to do so. I like writing the math out by hand, but it's more out of practice than anything else.

edit: missed you meant calling open shoves with like 1.5x the shove. yah these are interesting, though I'm lead to believe that as long as your range to call is profitable over their shoving range, up to a certain point, the difference between your stack and theirs might not matter at all. they're simply profitable or costly decisions. i like to think about every decision's impact on the greater picture (“no one snowflake feels responsible for the avalanche” kinda thinking), but when youre dealing with under 20bb, the math becomes pretty discrete.