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Well, in the end the 8000 chips are worth the same to a winner as a loser, so each chip is certainly not worth some static non-zero percentage more for a good player than for a bad player.

I really think determining exactly what a chip is worth to various players based on their skill is just impossible. One could probably learn some stuff about this with massive computer simulations, but they would indeed have to be truly massive.

It does not seem obvious to me that giving a certain number of chips would give more money per tourney to a good player than a bad one (or vice versa), so I just assume it is the same.

I generally think of good players as building equity by making winning decisions, not as having more equity per chip.