[woodguy]

I have found that patience with the shortish stack is everything.

Like ansky says, you are looking for good situations, not always good cards.

I find you have huge folding equity with a 10BB -12BB stack over PF raisers, so when I get down to that stack level, I'm looking more for a chance to come over top of a PF raise all in, rather than just trying to find an open raise steal.

Its very easy for someone to re-raise you when you open raise for a steal, it is very difficult to call that raise without a premium holding (unless the PFR has a big stack and can take the hit) , exploit that gap.

I still have to thank Sossman, who opened my eyes when he said the biggest thing that he learned that propelled his MTT game was "to learn to re-raise PF with or without a hand"

Regards,
Woodguy