Re: Is there a \"reverse Gigabet Dilemma\"? Big stack play late in a MTT
It's an interesting idea, but there's no "reverse Gigabet Dilemma." Gigabet is not passing up +cEV situations because he doesn't want to lose his big stack.
The Big Stacks at the bubble have a better chance of winning the tournament, but not as much as you might think. If you calculate the average number of chips each person will have at the final table, and compare it with the number of chips in your big stack at bubble time, you'll see that you still have to accumulate a lot of chips in order to be competitive at the final table. Accumulating chips means taking risks. MTTs are all about risk, and you can't avoid it.
Many fish play as you describe: they nurse their big stack, hoping to slide into the big money. Don't be one of them.
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