Re: Folding the best hand
I had never played an MTT until I tried the Paradise Million Freeroll, and had no idea what I was doing. The top 30 players won a seat, so there was no difference in finishing 1st or 30th, in fact the tournament suddenly stopped when there were 30 players left. I had built up a good stack, but was blinding out with absolutely no playable hands as I got near the money, and I caught AA preflop. I folded and just barely coasted into the money. If I had risked any chips at all and had my aces cracked, I would have finished out of the money. So yes, sometimes it is +EV to fold the best hand.
If there was a distributed payout for the top 30, I would have definitely pushed with the aces.
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