Deep stacks, played right
Most training stops at 100 big blinds. The biggest live games are just getting started there. DrawingDead is a training ground for cash players who sit two hundred, five hundred, a thousand blinds deep — original baseline ranges, decision drills, and the mental game for pots that matter.
Ranges
The DrawingDead baseline: the core preflop tree for live 9-max — opening, facing an open, facing a 3-bet — authored at four depth tiers, with every deepening adjustment highlighted.
Enter →Drills
Preflop quizzes generated straight from the charts, plus authored deep-stack scenarios and mental-game dilemmas — graded, explained, and scored.
Enter →Mental Game
Scared money, loss aversion, tilt after the monster pot, quitting discipline — the psychology of playing enormous pots, treated as seriously as the strategy.
Enter →The Ritual
A short settling ritual — state check, breath, tilt-trigger rehearsal, three rules — before you sit or after a monster pot. The mental game, installed when it matters.
Enter →Deep stacks are a different game
Depth raises speculative payoffs
The price of a small pair never changes; the prize does. At 250bb a set can collect sixty times the call — depth turns speculative hands into premium ones.
Position appreciates
Every blind of depth adds another decision the button gets to make last. At 500bb, position is not an advantage — it is the terrain.
Commitment is earned
At the baseline 4bb open, a heads-up single-raised pot at 200bb still leaves an SPR above 20 — top pair no longer plays for all of it. Big pots demand big hands, and keeping medium hands in medium pots is the whole skill.
Never be the one drawing dead
Drawing dead: holding a hand that can no longer win, no matter what card comes. Real training is seeing it in your own decisions before the money is gone.