Always steal in this situation?

[parttimepro]

So I've been bullying a lot with my big stack, and evidently stopped getting respect after a while. Is this an autosteal given the stack sizes? If you were villain and knew the big stack was stealing a lot, what hands do you call this with?

Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 2: Villain (1855)
Seat 3: Shortstack (1290)
Seat 8: Hero (6855)
Hero posts small blind (200)
Villain posts big blind (400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ 8d, 5c ]
ShortStack folds.
Hero raises (3800) to 4000
Villain calls (1455)

[FishBurger]

This type of hand always gets me into trouble when I'm the big stack. The blinds are big and villian's stack looks tiny in comparison. However, villian is short-stacked and knows you are loose. If I were villian, I would call with any two broadway cards, any ace, and maybe K8+.

Given all that and the fact that your hand is weak (132 out of 169 on the hand ranking chart that is floating around here), I would fold this here. If you double up villian here, he becomes the big stack and your back in a cat fight.

Aggression=goot. Selective aggression=better.

[ColdestCall]

When I've been bullying a lot with a big stack, I will use a hand like this to put the thought in my opponents mind that I CAN fold a hand, and I'm NOT just pushing with any two.

Fold here, push any two on the button next hand.

[curtains]

I wouldn't always steal here. SB won't play that tight since hes not that far ahead of the BB. The BB has 1/3 of his chips in the pot and thus is likely to call if the SB folds. I think its just a bad steal.