Short stack exploits

Greetings everyone. Does anyone know of any materials on the exploits with a shortstack in MTTs? Noticed that against very passive tables dynamics are quite different, and it looks like not having a limping range with a microstack or picking anything inbetween limping and betting very big is very suboptimal compared to possible exploitative strategies there, though I'm kinda hitting the wall on finding anything related to it online.

If you have a short steak with just under 20BB, it's not that bad because you can still afford to wait for decent hands. But as soon as the stack starts to drop to 10 BB, we need to play marginal hands like 7-7, 8-8, 9-T more aggressively. If that same steak is down to 5BB or lower, you'll need to decide all-in with any pocket pair or solid draw.

It should be some theory on MTTs but a bit more "stringent", meaning you don't have the "time to think" over exploitation as much. Consequently, you have to be more decisive and faster with variations, like those ranging 10Bb to 20Bb, so a lot of adaptation going on imo. It looks harder thats for sure

Short stacked poker is mostly about the push/fold ranges preflop. If someone is not jamming as wide as GTO, then you fold more. If they are not calling as much as GTO, then you push more, and so on and so forth. Talking about limping ranges other than from the SB is not really nessesary and focusing on such fancy play rather than learning the push/fold ranges is likely to hurt your results.

fundiver199 said:

Talking about limping ranges other than from the SB is not really nessesary and focusing on such fancy play rather than learning the push/fold ranges is likely to hurt your results

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I mostly mean the extremely weak tables, where shoving especially under 5 bigs becomes suicidal as you basically have no fold equity against such players, while people just won't reshove you often enough for limping with playable hands multiway with an aim to see the flop to be unprofitable. I'm pretty alright at push-fold at normal tables, but it just doesn't seem to work properly in these specific scenarios.