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I agree with you that Eric Lindgren's book is very good and has not gotten the attention that it deserves.

The other advantage to keeping the pot small is variance --- if you are significantly better than your opponents in the tournament, then it is important to keep pots small to reduce variance and to allow your better post-flop reading abilities to take effect. On the other hand, if you are worse than the calibre of your opposition (e.g. you won a satellite into a professional event) then you want to play big pot poker... you can effectively neutralize the better reading abilities of your opponents. This is the basic philosophy behind both Sklansky's System and the Kill Phil book.