Deep stack
A stack is deep when it is large relative to the blinds, usually taken as more than about 150 big blinds, so there is room for several rounds of betting after the flop.
Depth changes which hands are worth playing. Implied odds matter more when there is money left to win, so small pairs and suited connectors gain, and hands that only ever make one pair lose, because one pair is a poor hand to put a deep stack in with.
It also raises the cost of mistakes. Every extra street of betting is another chance to be wrong for a larger amount, which is why deep games reward position more heavily than short stacked ones.
an example
your cards
You have 250 big blinds and call a raise with suited connectors. The hand misses most flops, and the reason it is still playable is that on the flops it does hit, there is enough money behind for the winning pot to be very large.
This example is made up. The real one is in your own hand history: find deep stack in your own hands and see how often it came up and what it cost you.
related terms
Implied odds
Implied odds are the pot odds you would be getting if you also count the money you expect to win on later streets when y ...
Stack to pot ratio
Stack to pot ratio, or SPR, is the smaller of the two remaining stacks divided by the size of the pot at the start of a ...
Short stack
A stack is short when it is small relative to the blinds, usually under about 30 big blinds, which removes most of the r ...
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