WSOP Deep Stack Mistake #9 Slowplaying
This is closely related to the concept above. When only one or two bets remain in the effective stacks, the potential downside to slowplaying the flop or turn is limited. Often, you can get the money in anyway.
But because pot size grows exponentially, missing a bet on the flop translates into huge losses on future streets when stacks are deep enough for that to matter. Earlier, I demonstrated that a half-pot bet into an 8 BB pot on the flop would only enable you to win 68 BB total by the river. But look what happens when you don’t bet the flop at all and then pot the turn and river: you get 8 BB on the turn and then 24 BB on the river, for a total of 32 BB. Betting even half the pot on the flop would have enabled you to win more than twice as much.
This isn’t to say that slowplaying is never correct. However, the potential downside is huge, so you should have a very good reason if you check a monster on the flop.