[zoobird]

Not in a position to disagree with you, and I know that most of the top posters would agree with you, but intuitively this feels wrong. If the best one can generally hope for is a series of 13-to-10 'coin flips', I don't see how its possible to get the kind of consistent tournament results that some 2+2 posters seem to get. Again, you guys have me totally convinced about my original scenario, but in more marginal situations this is surprising...lets say QQ vs. AK early in a tournament where I believe I'm in the top 10-15% of players.