Is there a "reverse Gigabet Dilemma"? Big stack play late in a MTT

[etojim]

Recently I have been doing fairly well in MTT’s, oftentimes being near the bubble or just ITM with one of 10 biggest stacks. But I would invariable lose several marginally +cEV calls against middle or small stacks and end up losing my “big stack” status and then end up out of the tourney shortly thereafter. (It looks this happened to Sirio11 in yesterday’s Stars 750, http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...0#Post4586011). The more I thought about this problem, I realized that this is sounds like the opposite of the “Gigabet dilemma.”

When have a big stack you gain leverage over the smaller stacks at the table. But I think there may be times when you are faced with + cEV calls, that if you win will obviously increase your stack but not will increase the value of the stack at the table, because you are already the big stack. However, if you lose, you may lose enough chips so that your big stack status is jeopardized and you no longer have the leverage a big stack yields.

So yesterday in the PP 750K, I played my usual game and ended up ITM with a fairly big stack. But then I slowed down and employed the “reverse Gigabet dilemma”, passing small +cEV situations so that I could maintain a relatively big stack. The result was I finished 27th, my best finish in a large MTT.