Quote Originally Posted by wellrounded08
When I'm the only bigstack, I'll do just like sar said probably though.
Actually bro, I'd flip the scrip on that... 'cause as you know, the effective stack is only as big as what everyone else at the table has. So if you got 300bb, but nobody else has over 100, ain't nothin' changed.

My two other issues about playing extra deep is variance and post-flop. Let's say you normally getting it all-in w/ KK pre-flop. Normally, you a favorite over most ranges and you win lets say 57% of the time vs a QQ-AA, AKo, AKs range. Consistently stacking off 100bb (buy-in size) is going to earn you a profit, 'cause the 43 times you lose 100bb, you'll pick make it on the 57 times you win.

If you ocassionally throw in some 200 or 300bb deepstack sh!t your f-in with the long-term profitability. Granted, the odds are the same on the hand taken in isolation, but your mistakes are amplified... you misread the dude's deep stack-off range and it ends up being AA only, you just took a 3-buyin hit.

In addition, the whole deepstack SPR sh!t gets very different. To Chopper's point, big pairs go down in value deepstacked and drawing hands (suited connecters, pockets played for sets, etc) go up because of the heavy weighting towards implieds. Deep-stack heavily favors the better post-flop player, 'cause you're going to need to make the right decisions through all 3-streets, and any weak-tight or spewy tendencies going to be easier to exploit.

Keep in mind... this is king-mutha-f-in nit talking... but that's how sh!t looks from my side of the woods fwiw.