More suited gappers, fewer offsuit broadways. The cutoff stays wide — but wide in hands that scale with depth.
Nut potential is everything. Suited aces, pairs, and connected suited hands open wider; dominated offsuit hands are quietly toxic and keep shrinking.
The cutoff attacks the button and the blinds. This is the first position where pure steal equity carries a meaningful share of the range.
Assumes a live-standard open to ~4bb, raise-or-fold. In straddled games, halve your effective big blinds and read the chart at that depth.