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In the first level of a poker tournaments, your PTBB/100 might be like 20, if you double early, it might be like 21, and if you lose out, it will be 0. So by doubling early, getting it in as a 50/50, you lose a lot of the value that you would have had by being at the table.

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This isn't really applicable. If you have another game to go any play in (online or whatever), then you can make your 20 PTBB or whatever there. If you haven't, then doubling up might not increase your hourly at all, but you can apply it for more hours, right ?

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This is kind of irrelevant, since either;
1) Your hourly rate in a live tourney is much higher than playing online
2) You play the live the tourney because you want to maximize your equity in that live tourney