Pokerstars VIP $285 cash question

[Greg Miller]

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For the tournament route to be worth it he'd need to win about 35% of the time when you factor in opportunity loss from the time and also the 1-3% loss selling $T

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In other words, it depends on how far below average (for these satellites) the player in question is. It's certainly going to be +EV to choose the satellites for a large number of players, albeit with huge variance.