[BermudaDude]

Thanks for the reply.

Apologies if my questions are too elementary.

You mention that Hero has a dominating chip position at the table. Is stack size relative to the table in general the thing to look at early in a tournament rather than stack size compared to the average stack of the remaining players in the tournament ?

In a situation as above, how do you figure out what the number of outs after the flop that *would* make you call is ?

Is there some way of using the ratios of your stack size and the average stack plus number of remaining players, your current position and places being paid to get some heuristic indicator which would help in determining how willing one ought to be to take risks at a given point in a tournament ?