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I know, I know..you want to be called by worse hands...well, when I'm a 65% favorite with all my chips on the line just 2 or 3 times in a tournament, I'm an underdog to stay alive.


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This is one of the biggest fallacies out there. If you double through, your chances of the next confrontation being for all your chips are much lower. Therefore this whole "X^N < 0.5 and therefore I'm underdog to stay alive" line of analysis is just wrong.

This line of thinking applies if you're very short stacked and need to double through several times to even get an average stack. But the only lesson there is: sucks to be a shortstack. That doesn't mean you should pass on your 60/40s.

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