short stacks

[morgan]

My friend was playing 7-stud in a California card club, low limit, and found many people would play with "short stacks" -- that is they would buy in for the minimum ($20) only, and try to get all in early in a hand. We were discussing as to whether this can be a good strategy.

In particular, this game was VERY loose-passive and we were wondering if this would be the ideal game in which to play with short stacks.

Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks in advance...

Morgan