How can these people afford to play poker?

[muxplust]

5k is cheaper than crack

[Hattifnatt]

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thats so standard at party...

Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t400/t800
(Ante: t25)
4 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: t13475
Hero: t855
SB: t3935
BB: t1735

Pre-flop: (4 players) Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
UTG folds, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises all-in t830</font>, 2 folds.
Uncalled bets: t30 returned to Hero.

Results:
Final pot: t2100

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If there is a large gap between 3rd and 4th place payout, it's actually a good fold, because this way the big stack can continue to push most of his hands, since, with the smallstack almost certainly going out very soon, the two midstacks can only call with QQ+.

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level I hope. this woulda been a good point if BB was the big stack but def not now.