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Message: [QUOTE="sandy358, post: 7144794, member: 1040401"] There is a bunch of factors to consider. As you get shallower, your range morphology changes, you play less low suited and low pair hands and more off-suit broadway/Axo types of hands (because it is hard to deny your equity when your stacks get shallower), so because there are four times as much offsuit hands as there are suited, technically you play looser. But this is one side of the coin. The other side is the ICM. As you get closer to the bubble, you need to nit more as a mid stack, unless the short stacks nit. You get less when you win and you lose more when you bust. But if you are a chip leader, you can bully mid-stack, other deep stack and upper short-stack opponents, if they have a basic understanding of the ICM and overfold. If they don't - just don't engage that much into ICM-based exploits, because you will win money as they bust. [/QUOTE]