Quote Originally Posted by Lukie
Quote Originally Posted by Renton
Quote Originally Posted by Lukie
What if you can beat the game with a full stack, but your edge is bigger and your variance is smaller shortstacking it?
Thats a nice hypothetical, but it won't happen. Shortstack variance will always be worse than deepstack variance for the same reason that LHE is swingier than NLHE.
Please ellaborate more on this.
Because shortstack nl and lhe rely on taking mostly 5-10% edges to win at showdown for most of the value. And its easy to roll a 10 sided die 50 times before you land on the desired number.

Fold equity exists at shortstacking, sure, but generally you are only pushing when you know you are ahead of the range he'll call with, meaning you are taking a modest edge vs villains range most of the time.