I was flipping through Ed Miller's Getting Started in Texas HE book and found his section on playing a short stack in a cash game interesting. He says that being short-stack is easier to play as opposed to buying-in for the max if you play tight, and includes a basic starting hands chart. Now, he talks about this in the context of a too rich for my blood B&M game (the specific example he has is buying in for $200 in a $500 max game), so it may not apply outside of that setting.

I was just wondering if anyone here had read it and had any thoughts on it. Does it apply to the internet low buy-in game or fishy sites like Party? I tried it on a 0.01/0.02 game and I guess worked out eventually. After getting my few premium hands cracked by unsuited, unpaired, unconnected, low cards I finally more than doubled up when I sucked out on some guy playing T6o with a board of T36 when a 3 came on the turn (and a K on the river for good measure), but it was painful getting there. had I been playing even a quarter blind I would have given up long ago.

The only reason I ask-- Empire gave me a free $10 to play with until Nov 11, so I might as well do something with it and the $10/$25 ratio works out to Miller's $200/$500 ratio. I got lucky and flopped a straight and I almost doubled it on a 6-max NL table (all the 10-max were full with long waiting lists). On the 6-max I'm probably asking for trouble, but at worst I'll have made a little money on it. Any advice from here?