A small pokerstack is described as having less than ten big blinds. No one wants to be the small stack, but it happens. And once it does, it’s time to find out what you’re made of.

In the small stack position, it’s make or break time. If you’ve got a small stack, you need to start playing a little crazy. You’re an animal backed into a corner, and the other poker players need to see that you’re dangerous. When you’re small stack, he key to winning and losing is in how you raise. Don’t ever just call, and don’t ever just raise a portion of your stack. If you’re going to play your minimal stack, it’s time to go all in. Every time.

I know you want to preserve your chips, but by the time you’re the small stack, there’s not a whole lot to hang on to. Any poker player with a larger stack isn’t risking much by calling against you, and you’re whole stack might just give them pause. If you win, you’ve doubled up and hurt an opponent’s stack. Even if you lose, you’ve gone out with your guns blazing-it’s way better to go out with a gutsy all-in raise than by bleeding your chips out by folding blind after blind.

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