[Iron Tigran]

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Ok. Now let me say something else. One of the reasons why Phil Helmuth is one of the greatest Tournament players ever is because of his ablility to lay down big hands. Ok. If you can't ever lay down AK QQ or whatever it may be, preflop, than I don't see how your ROI or ITM can ever really improve. Not only will never folding with these types of hands make bad beats occur more often than they should, but it also can't really help with your game mentally if you go on a downswing where you keep losing with said hands.

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Hellmuth is a great tourney HE player, no doubt. But so are Ivey, Hansen, D. Brunson and Raymer, and they have active/aggressive styles. What have we proved by mentioning great players and whether they are more aggressive, or more prone to wait for a long time, passing up small edges, looking for a hand to get it all in as a big favorite?

edited cos I misread AK as AA and yammered on about how those rare satellite type situations are rarely relevent.