[Leavenfish]

[quote Mr. Snyder gives an excellent example of how his 30 BBs (M20) went to 12 in just a few hands. This was definitely based upon the speed of the tournament, rather than the quality of decisions.

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Yeh, but if he got crap hands in that short of time, what's he supposed to do? Bad hands are bad hands and you can still play with an M of 12.

Now if you and Snyder are saying that you should have looked to not even get down to an M of 20...sometimes it just can't be helped. Besides, maybe the reason the M was 20 in the first place was because Snyder had tried to get more chips with a debatable hand when he was at an M of 25...or got beaten with a good hand - either could happen to Harrington or Snyder...perhaps slightly less so with Harrington since - while he impores you to try and stay there, might not be quite as desperate to stay well into the Green zone as Snyder.

I think Mason has explained everything, defended his position well and really has nothing much to add - particularly given that Radar has had a tendency to misrepresent some of his statements/twist them (perhaps) to keep the argument going and...hey, maybe generate buzz for the book.

---Leavenfish