Re: Apathy or unquenched desire?
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Nath,
The article mentions going allin as a 54% favorite, not a dog.
Also, after skimming the article still am not really impressed by the numbers. In most tournaments I think a good player is more than 59% to double up and way more than 2x avg to win.
In general I think almost all of these ideas of gambling for a stack are silly, especially in a tourney like the stars mill.
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O RLY? Just as an example, from the $27.5 buy-in $25k Gtd. on Stars:
Entrants: 1347
1st place: $7169
Avg person should win: 1/1347=.07%
Your theoretical win %: .14%
Assume 15% ITM, any cash not a win is the first cash of $50.51
.15*50.51+.0014*7169-22=17.61
17.61/22=80% ROI
This is not even accounting for all other FTs, etc., so me-thinks you haven't thought this through
FWIW, not that anyone cares, I'm on nath and shaun's side here. I apply somewhat similar strategies with sports sometimes where if my future EV earning potential is better served by taking a slight -EV gamble now, the overall EV of the move is positive.
Situations like these arise in things like tournaments because of the finite nature of things in that we have a certain period (before someone else does it) where we have to accumulate as much as possible (all the chips).
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