[JayTee]

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It's amazing that there is virtually no feedback to this article. In my opinion it's the one with the biggest impact on practical play and every SnG player should read it twice!

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I've been meaning to get back to this article, but one thing that jumped out right away was this "silly" example:

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For example, lets say the blinds are 100/200 and you have AQo in the Big Blind and a stack of 2,356 with four people remaining. The little blind has 4,268. The cutoff has 2,780 and the button has 4,096 meaning you have about 19% tournament equity. The Little Blind moves all in. If you fold your blind, you will have 18.65% tournament equity. If you call and win, you will have 31% tournament equity.

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Calculating hundredths of tourney equity, based on chip stacks that shouldn't be possible (did we start with T1/2 blinds?), seemed a bit "strange" to me.

I'm assuming the author worked backwards from the percentage to get the stacks, but it bothered the nit in me a little. Just a comment..

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I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at.

I don't know if this was an example or an actual hand, but the stacks are possible since people can type in odd bet amounts.

Calculating equity down to fractions of a percent is necessary since the edges that you can accept for a play to be correct can be measured in fractions of a %, especially as the stacks become shallower.