[k_squared]

it isn't about being pushed around. A small stack just decreases the size of the stakes in relation to the blinds. I guess if you have a stack which is limitless you can't lose because you could just go all in each hand until you win. But that simply isn't the case.

But that is not the situation at play. Here we are talking about a situation that does not give special advantage to deep stacks (i.e. they are not limitless). In the circumstances he is saying the advantage that a player with a small stack has is that they have to make fewer decisions! The deeper the stack, the more important your decisions are (with the caveat that your stack size is really only as large as taht of your opponent). The goal is not to 'hurt' your opponents... it is to win money (in a tournament stack size is much more important because teh blinds are constantly going up AND you can't rebuy after losing). And a small stack has NO INHERENT disadvantage for average to poor players. If you are good the disadvantages are that it limits your chance to maximize on small edges (edges bad players would not be able to take advantage of).

The whole point is actually that a small stack that waits for great starting hands is almost impossible to 'push' around because they have only easy decisions to make!

-K_squared