party 200K guaranteed early hand : AA input wanted

[Cornell Fiji]

If you are a good aggressive player having 10,000 chips when everyone else has 5,000 chips then your chip stack is actually worth more than 10,000 because it will allow you to win more chips later on (this is especially true around bubble time)

Now it is true that each subsequent chip that you earn in a tournament is worth less to your expected winrate than the previous chip, however this is to be balanced out with the fact that having more chips will help you get more chips (especially around bubble time) and there is an equilibrium point where this play should be made.

Your example is poor because AK not a true coinflip with most pocket pairs.

However, in the first hand of the WSOP I would happily call all in with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] closing the action against a player who had 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].

I will elaborate more on this later if you would like but I have a final in an hour and need to get back to work