[amoeba]

I think position has a lot to do with this but for example if Im forced to sit in front of the smart lags ( good postflop players) for most hands and I want to still make money off the maniacs, I think buying in short is a good strategy.

Poker isnt just call, raise, fold. If you have a choice in buy in, you should maximize that choice.

at a table in which others were worse postflop players then buyin in max is of course the right choice. But at a table in which they are good postflop players but like to take a lot of flops then I think short stack strategy is the way to profit.