Re: The flip side of dominating the bubble
Yeah, this is true. What happens in those cases is that each extra chip is worth a lot more $EV. You can tell that from looking at that Paradise million dollar freeroll.
However, with 55 left, there's still enough of a diffusion effect so that a 2x average stack isn't worth 2x$EV. It's worse on the bubble (when you don't have any FE and are up against a bigger stack - if this guy had 3 BB, pushing tens would not be a question because your $180 is not at nearly as much risk) because you're giving up that extra $. Conversely, at the final table, that same stack is worth much more than 2x average ("Gigablocks"), because the ladder is now super steep and taking flips for smaller amounts of it to eliminate an opponent is perfect play.
It's just something that seems instinctively correct.
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