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you guys realize that it doesn't matter that it's $5 per table for ev, just that if you hit, you win $2K min

I don't know about you and your roll, but for a lot of us, 2k is huge.

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That's just glazing over the concept of expected value. It's like saying "I don't care if chasing my gutshot draw was -EV, it won me a $500 pot." Or like saying "who cares if the lottery is -EV? If you hit it, you win millions." Rationally speaking, if you can expect to earn more than $5/hour per table, by playing regular poker, everything else held constant, it would make sense to do that over trying for this milestone hand. In fact, if your regular 8-tabling is on Stars anyway, you still have a shot at the milestone hand as well.

But I do agree that for something like this, it's easy to ignore the concept of EV, and for some, it's still worth it to do so.