playing against ratholers

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You DON'T want to steal their blinds everytime as a GOOD shortstacker will just shove a really wide range. If you fold 2/3 times he only needs 33% equity versus your calling range.
Sure you can beat nitty shortstackers like this but a good shortstacker will adjust to this and start shoving much wider with hands that have good equity versus your calling range.
Sure opening smaller helps but you DON'T want to ship them your open raise 2 out of 3 times.
Say you open for 3BB from the Button, SB folds. 20BB shortstack in the big blind shoves.
If you fold 2 out of 3 times shortstack will win 7BB. If he loses less than 7BB on average when called his shove is +EV.
Why would you want to open 74s on the button when you will be facing a shove quite often?
SB will have a fairly tight range as he should fear a squeeze from the BB and BB only has 20BB so the postflop value of your hand goes down the drain.