Over the last few months, one of the most talked about issues in the online poker community is what to do about short stackers. To many, they blight our noble pursuit. They are as unwanted as pregnant rats. But why are so many players so passionate in their abhorrence of short stackers? What is so wrong about they way they play? Let's see. Before I continue, I should probably explain what a short stacker is for those who clicked on this article out of sheer confusion. Put most simply, a short stacker is a player who purposely buys into a No-Limit Hold'em game for the absolute minimum allowable stack, sometimes slightly higher. Twenty big blinds is the most common buy-in. So, at $0.10 No-Limit table, a short stacker would buy in for only $2. There is more to it than that, though. The short stacker has a strict set of playable hands depending on position and strict rules as to how to play them. In general, these rules say to push or fold pre-flop (again, depending on the hand and position), although some short stackers will bet about half their stack ...