Quantifying the profitability of the short-stack strategy

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You are talking about standard deviation, right?

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Variance is simply standard deviation squared.

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That's funny...you mean variance is like some math term?

As a mean increases (winrate for example), the variance will almost always increase.

What you should really be talking about is comparing winrate to stdev(or variance). That would be an interesting metric to investigate.

And lastly, in agreement with the OP, Rolf pretty much says the same thing ...shortstack strategy is less profitable than a good full stack player at the same level.

But another point to consider, which I haven't seen addressed here, is that say I don't have 40 buyins for playing full stacked PLO200. I will buyin short and use a modified Rolf strategy. If some maniac LAG doubles me up, then I sure am not hitting and running.