[excession]

Wouldn't that depend on the number of tables available?

Say a pro shorty averages 20 mins/table and 8 tables.

On average he will get through 24 tables/hour

So long as there are 24 active tables he can sit in on at the site, a 1 hr rathole time makes no difference to him does it? He can rotate them indefinitely and still rathole each one.

Or of course he can just blitz every available table then move onto another site until his rathole time is up (possibly even on the same network in a lot of cases).

And as the site owners probably get more rake/hr from an 8 tabling shorty than a 4 tabling 100BB player why the hell are they going to force the more valuable one to leave their site and play elsewhere for the benefit of the 100BB pro?

The best solution is simply to provide 100BB fixed buy-in tables alongside the 20BB buy-in ones - and add more full stack ones if the ones available fill up. That's what alerady happens on several sites (such as iPoker)

The 100BB pros can then avoid the shorties.

Of course as most shorties at stakes<$400NL suck and are big donators, they would be daft to do this, but it may have some usefulness for the higher stake players I guess..