[dauler]

You aren't saying anything that Negreanu would disagree with, you're just looking at it from a different perspective. He was making the point that it's easier to make the right decision when you have less money in front of you, there was no other way to play that hand when he had $50 left in front of him. He wasn't saying that that makes it an optimal strategy, simply that if you aren't good at making correct decisions, it's easier to play with less money in front of you because there are fewer factors to consider. He'd agree with you that it's possible to make more money when you have a bigger stack because you have more freedom of choice, but if you don't know what to do with that freedom you're making the game tougher on yourself, short stacked is a simpler strategy to employ correctly.