Quote Originally Posted by Irisheyes
Quote Originally Posted by Lukie
In deep stacked games, protecting your stack is far more important then protecting your hand.
Could someone please explain this too me. Surely a +EV decision is a +EV decision weather you have a 10 buyin stack or a one buyin stack, you want to make the most money you can from a positive expectation situation. If you want to protect your stack leave the table.
I disagree here strongly, but I'm about to get something to eat so I don't want to get involved here too much. I'll just put out an example.

Suppose you are playing a tight-agressive game, and you pick up a SC in late position.. say 6d 7d.. with an early position limper. You both have a 1000xBB stack. You change it up for a bit and play it agressively raising to 4xBB. You get a call behind you from the button and everybody folds except the limper, who calls. Flop comes rags with 2 diamonds. Limper checks to you, you make a c-bet, button folds. EP limper calls. Turn is a blank. Check-bet-call. River brings a diamond, and both of you guys start betting like crazy. Bet-raise-raise, you get the point.

More then likely, you are going to put your stack into the hand if you have 1 buyin, but are you going to risk 10 buyins here when his action makes it almost certain that you are beat?