How much does stack depth magnify win rates at live No Limit Holdem?
Join Date: Jun 2020
Posts: 9
Let's say you have a live crusher who plays just as well at deeper games as normal games, how much as a rule of thumb would you expect their win rate to increase as stacks get deeper?
Let's say their win rate at 100BB stacks is 10 BB per hour (good estimate for a crusher at live games). What would you expect their win rate to be at a game that is 200BB deep?
Does it increase proportionally? Logarithmically? Or some other relationship?
I know this isn't possible to answer with 100% certainty and that there are a lot of variables, but I'm just looking for any information anyone can give.
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 1,371
Unlike online, live winrates seem to be proportional to the average stack size instead of blinds.
Edges get more significant the larger the game tree as there's more nodes for mistakes to occur.
I've found that for strong players they generally scale as % of average stacks won - so 5/10 1k average stack $100/hr (10%), 5/10 2k average stack $200/hr (10%) etc
It's also likely the deeper the stacks, the more straddling etc occurs which also compounds you winrate.
