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  • Sure enough, not two minutes after he sits down, he gets involved in a hand with the doctor, who has been short-stacked ever since I made that big call on him.

    TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

  • Sure enough, not two minutes after he sits down, he gets involved in a hand with the doctor, who has been short-stacked ever since I made that big call on him.

    TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

  • A little while later, after C.T. Law takes out the short-stacked Meng La, Phil Gordon gets all in pre-flop again, this time against David Pham.

    TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

  • A little while later, after C.T. Law takes out the short-stacked Meng La, Phil Gordon gets all in pre-flop again, this time against David Pham.

    TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

  • Or if I'm short-stacked, and I know that I have to go home anyway, so I get really agressive, and pick up a bunch of pots . . . so I get into the top pack and have to leave anyway?

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: April 2005 Archives 2005

  • I know that we want guys to play K-4o when we've got pocket jacks, especially when the flop misses him and gives us a straight draw . . . but we really don't want him to river a king to suck out on us, and leave us so short-stacked that we push on the button with AQ and get called by AK in the Big Blind.

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: July 2005 Archives 2005

  • On the final day, as Stuey and Doyle rooted for him, Straus completed his remarkable journey, from which sprang the hoping-for-a-miracle refrain, “a chip and a chair,” now commonly invoked by short-stacked tournament players the world over.

    One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005

  • On the final day, as Stuey and Doyle rooted for him, Straus completed his remarkable journey, from which sprang the hoping-for-a-miracle refrain, “a chip and a chair,” now commonly invoked by short-stacked tournament players the world over.

    One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005

  • Jason Alexander and Malcolm Jamal-Warner went out before him, but he was short-stacked.

    Yankees mojo brendan_moody 2005

  • On the final day, as Stuey and Doyle rooted for him, Straus completed his remarkable journey, from which sprang the hoping-for-a-miracle refrain, “a chip and a chair,” now commonly invoked by short-stacked tournament players the world over.

    One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005

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