[Jman28]

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which is more important, playing some small edge pots early or never opening yourself up to big losses

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The thing is, he never really opened himself up to big losses.

The hand where he called the pf raise with (I believe) Q9o, and then reraised the flop (ATx) bet from 100 to 300, that was all he was risking.

He wasn't, I assume, going to call any reraise or bet on later streets, unless a miracle hit. So he would've been left with enough stack to manouver.

This is definitely pronounced in this tourney because of the payout stucture, but I still think it's important that we realize how little he's actually risking.

It's a topic discussed in Reuben and Ciaffone's book, about threatening the opponents whole stack with only part of yours, because they have to worry about later streets.

Early in the tourney is the time to do this because later, we actually have to risk our entire stack to threaten theirs.