I use to half-stack it at crazy full ring tables "back in the day". I would buy in short, wait for a big hand and hope to get action. The idea was that I would have no hard decitions postflop. It worked great for a long time, since people still made crazy calls thinking they could outplay me postflop (like all the pro's do).

I think the main reason it works today is that there are so many horrid smallstack players around now that the good are hard to spot at first.

Take the TT hand in this tread, yesterday I had TT (overpair) and got it allin vs a 40bb stack with AQo on the turn. So in the end, as said by someone else already, most players SUCK.

There are money to be won and how you do it is up to you. Play the way that works for you, we are not all the same. If you struggle with FS play then maybe HS is the way to go. FS works for me, so I'm going to stick with that untill I feal I need to change.