Daniel Negreneau Verifies His Agreement With Me

[Beavis68]

I am having a hard time understanding why early in a tournament is so stressed.

The disparity in chip to real dollar value is smallest early in the game, and greatest late in the game.

So if you shouldnt gamble early, why should you do it later? If anything you should play tighter as the game goes on if you are going by chip value.

Lets look at a 10 man tournament that playes 2 places with a 70/30 payout.

An early double up w/ten players remaining increases your equity by about 92.7%

Now, what happens with 5 remaining?

If everyone has 3600 chips and you manage to double up it increases your equity 82%

Now with 3 people left all with 6k in chips doubling only increases your equity by 64%

So, why not loose early and tight later?