Basic SNG Theory Question

[MasterShakes]

In Ed Miller's SSH book, he writes a chapter about "where the money comes from" and essentially describes the various ways players put dead money into the game. This is easily understandable with regard to thousands of individual hands.

What about thousands of individual tournaments? Are we looking more at the players as a whole? That is, from the moment they buy in for $11 or $22, or whatever it is, they are at a definite disadvantage given their skill level? Is this how I should be thinking about "where the money comes from" with regard to SNGs?

[Daliman]

yup.

[lorinda]

Think of any sport (American sports are particuarly good for this) where a series of events are far more significant than one event.

If you bet on one baseball player hitting a ball, well you'll get a 30% chance, but over 9 innings, 3 outs per inning and 162 games, a pattern starts to emerge /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Lori

[AlwaysWrong]

Is there a deeper question here than appears?

On first read, it looks like: "Is there any skill in SNGs?"

The obvious answer is yes.. everybody knows there is, and I'm sure you do.

Are you trying to get at the difference between a cash game where your results are continuous and a SNG where your results are discreet? Are you thinking about what it means to make a +ev play in a SNG?