Winning players becoming losers?

[Harv72b]

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Now if you take that same game and all the players keep bringing more money, its possible that the second best player will win more from the worse players than he loses to the best player and so still be a winning player.
--Zetack

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Assuming you meant this literally, this is incorrect.



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Ok, you've stumped me. I don't see why meaning this literally makes it incorrect. Does it help if I say players who run through their million dollars will bring new money to the game forever instead of quitting? Or are you getting at something else?

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He's wrong. You're right.

It's also a case of degrees of play. If the best player is only slightly better than the second best player, but both players are head & shoulders above the other 8, it is not only possibly but extremely likely that both players will leave the game with more money than they sat down with.

This is why it is often profitable to sit in a game with one or more other good players, perhaps better players than you, so long as there are other very bad players involved.