Re: No love for Harrington
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This is kind of splitting hairs. In later stages of tournaments, where one has to play a lot of shove-it-in poker, a "10BBs remaining" situation is approximately equal to a "5M" situation. I think that M is a slightly better indicator, and stack-to-pot considerations are still valid, of course.
However, if every poker authority/commentator/writer/whatever referred exclusively to "BBs remaining" rather than "M", they would still be referencing the same basic concept. Different terminology, differently scaled ruler--no big deal..
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I think there's more than that, to the extent that another 2+2er recently was telling me of how the concept of M is obsolete and the metric for the knowledgeable player is the #BB which in the presence of antes is refined into the "effective big blind", equal to 2/3 of the starting pot. Seems like efforts are being made to refine that measure, which wouldn't be the case if it was just an arithmetic convenience.
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