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Interesting take. This is my first World Series and one of the things I've been thinking about re: the main event is how much of an effect table draw will have on the way the tournament plays out for me. It seems the differences in approach (not style so much as approach to this specific event) would be wider in the main event than in any other tournament, making table draw more significant than normal. Especially Day 1 table draw b/c it does seem the structure is designed for a lot of chip movement/action on Day 2, which makes having chips after Day 1 so important. I like the Stars rebuy comparisons. Pros playing the main event very loose aggressive are something like the rebuy maniacs... they are making some -EV decisions early b/c of the potential reward they get from a big stack on Day 2 (the "second hour").

Also, when you try to maniac a rock table in a Stars rebuy, you usually just end up blowing through chips, which is what I imagine David is saying happens to all but the best of the LAGs in the Main Event when they are faced with a really tight table... especially in the early levels the chips they can't get enough reward for their risk if no one will gamble with them. They pick up the safe chips and get to 20K, but they can't win really big pots and get a real stack unless they catch a rare really big hand vs another really big hand situation.