I've been having problems against shorties, those 20bb idiots who like buying into the deep-stacked nit tables to take a shot (I'm talking 6max here). I often find myself running into them holding some garbage like J8 on a J42 flop when I make a pot-sized bet postflop, or they push for a PSB after the flop, and I'm holding AK/AQ. Is it normal to stick the shorties chips in when you've got Ace High on a nice dry board? I also struggle to fold AK high when I'm getting 2:1 on my money and shorty could have a huge range of hands. I also find it annoying that I have to change my strategy (from psycho raise-with-any-2 image to nit) when the Shorty Army come along, because my LAG strategy is a beautiful one for fairly deepstacked 6max, but 5h6h is no good against these idiots.

In terms of the original question, I disagree. In my opinion, apart from the obvious AA vs. set (and a few others) situations which have automatic implied odds, I feel a lot of implied odds in NLHE comes from forcing players to make decisions by being aggressive, forcing nits to play back at you, and forcing people who just play their cards to try to think on another level, and I feel that you need full buyins to do this effectively. Shorties also seem to have a camping mentality, and will happily lay down postflop and wait for TPTK.