Re: Isolating with the Gigabet Dilemma (long)
I'll try to answer this (and in answering will try to understand it more myself).
The basic premis behind all this is that
1) You are he big stack
2) You have a block of chips above the line that are "useless" sitting there in your stack
3) You use these extra chips to make occasional moves that have immediate -ev but serve to rearrange stacks/eliminate shorties to your right, etc. - use them to play a meta-game, if you will.
4) Once you run out of these "extra" chips - you can no longer play a meta-game - you need to switch to a more sound (and more generally accepted) poker tournament strategy to try and accumulate some extra chips that will allow you to play meta-game again, etc.
Having said that - I do not think that your example really applies, because re-raising 40% of my stack and then folding is bad, real- or meta-game.
P.S In the point 2) above I mentioned "the line". I'm still myself not very clear how to determine where this line is. The anthology post is sort of all about that, and I THOUGHT I got it, but I do not think I really do.
I hope Gigabet's next post in the series is titled "GToSS - figuring out where the line is..."
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