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Old 11-08-2005, 06:21 PM
ilya ilya is offline
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Default Re: Conjecture and Question

Quick aside....

It seems pretty obvious that in a winner-take-all tournament with Mason's parameters, as

total_prize_pool --> $40,000 ==> value_of_doubling_up --> $0,

but isn't it also true that as

total_prize_pool --> $INF
==> value_of_doubling_up --> $40,000 ?

My point is just that Mason's conjecture may seem intuitively correct because $40,000 equity in a $10,000 buy-in seems like a large edge.

What seems intuitively correct to me is that your expectation comes closer and closer to doubling as your edge represents a smaller and smaller % of the winner-take-all prize, no matter how huge that edge seems relative to the buy-in.
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