Was Paul Phillips *GASP* WRONG?!?

[Daliman]

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It always seemd to me that if you had a tournament with 100 players, and 80 top pros, and a tournament with 1000 players, and the same 80 top pros, plus 800 literally dead money players, a single pros' chances are not that grossly diminished, i'd say by no more than 50% less likely for him to cash or win, but that's a wild, unsubstantiatable guess.

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I strongly disagree with that estimate.

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Well, thus a wild, unsubstantiable guess, but in the past I did an exhaustive, (by my standards; half assed by PP's I'd bet) analysis on this and found that this can EASILY be the case.