nath -

I'm not arguing the vailidity of your play. In all honesty, I really haven't had a chance to analyze it yet. And on top of that, I have the feeling that it is one of those things in poker where, depending on your assumptions, it can be made out to be a +EV or a -EV play quite convincingly. And since no one seems to want to discuss validity of assumptions here, the whole argument seems to be rather moot.

You're right. It's important not to fall into the trap of "chalk[ing] up a potentially valuable vein of strategic knowledge to running well," which is argubably equally dangerous as my aforementioned trap. But I'm not the one that started this thread with this hand in question, so I thought my comment about avoiding the pitfall of associating a -EV play with positive equity simply because you have been pwning MTTs in the last 3 months was a little more relevant at the time.

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At what point do people stop assuming I just run well and start considering that maybe I understand something about tournaments that most people don't?


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When you've played 10,000 tournaments. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Anyway, I didn't intend for my post to stymie the discussion in the forum. And, as always nath, I've already told you that I'm always more than willing to argue to the death about a poker hand if it means we might uncover even a tiny nugget of poker knowledge. But I still thought my comment was necessary and appropriate in order to ground this conversation.

With that said, let's continue the discussion, becuase I for one am eager to learn about new approaches to the game. [censored], someone had to be the first one to realize 22 was ahead of AK pre-flop, right?