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2 vs 7...is it that much advantageous if he's the best player at the table? He'd be better off just playing his game rather than trying stupid isolation plays that could screw both accounts. For every 72 and AA theres always gonna be that situation where one account has AA and the other has KK, boy it sure woulda been nice to double up thru a real opponent rather than the "TEAM". It's not as easy as you guys think. The advantage is good to fold hands that are sharing cards cuz then you know you have a less chance to hit one of ur cards but when you open up your game with both accounts and play [censored] all the time trying to bully the table and steal dead money people are gonna view you as LAG and trap both your accounts for all your chips when they hold an above average hand.

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I don't buy this. Of course a skilled player will take into consideration his/her image when making plays, and of course two people playing together will not *always* be playing off of one another to get others into the pot, the same way a skilled player picks his/her spots rather than stealing every time it's folded to him on the button. That's why i used the phrase "well-timed" in my earlier post.

Using specific hand examples doesn't change the situation -- sure, i'd love to get AA vs. somebody else's KK rather than my own, but I'd also hate to get KK against somebody else's AA. Since this is a MTT, every time you bust somebody else, a new player comes to the table. With double the players on your team and double the information, you can expect to bust other players more quickly (i.e., the number of players you have a chance to play against / amount you can take from others doesn't really decrease, whereas the information and techniques available to you that give you a discernable edge clearly increase).