i play very timidly, but i feel i play my best as a short stack and shorthanded, i know thats probly not how it should be but thats my game at this point, i play the 22$ 10 player sng's, and quite often it will be down to 4 or 5 players and i will have just let myself get blinded down win the odd pot and be around 800 chips or so and everyone else is at 1500 - 2500, and i pick my spots and a good percentage of the time i make the money, and alot of those times i take first, thanks to all the heads up play and tips i have gotten lately

so i agree ripp yours is one style that works, but to say its the only way is wrong, there are many ways. maybe its just the way you phrased it, i dont know,