The Poker Tournament Formula by Arnold Snyder...

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Well the formula mentioned in the title is the complete strategy Snyder outlines in the book.

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Ah! Thanks, I now understand what he is talking about.

I was rather hoping for some way of quantifying the effect playing in the green zone has over playing in other zones. Or in cash game terms, how does your hourly rate change as you change the blind size while keeping other stack sizes the same.

If you can do this, it would be possible to estimate what excesses if any are justified for a world class player early in a tournament in order to stay in the green zone.

However assuming this is true and allowing for some of Arnold’s phrasing, would not this be more important in a slow structure event?

The reason being that most of your opponents will be in the green zone in a slow event so being in the yellow zone is a ‘handicap’ against almost the whole field, while in a fast event most of your opponents will not be in the green zone so in the yellow zone you will only be ‘handicapped’ against a small percentage of the field.