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Old 10-27-2005, 05:47 PM
ZBTHorton ZBTHorton is offline
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Default Re: An In Depth View of Tournament EV and Short Term Variance

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I think what your friend is really getting at is that there's no such thing as a -EV play that, when successful, nonetheless increases future EV (such as by giving you a big stack with which to bully.) This is also wrong, and your friend no doubt knows it even if he doesn't understand it, because if he's a winning player, at some point during his play he has pushed over a button minraise with trash on the bubble solely because he had the button covered. That is a -EV play given his crappy hand, but it's nevertheless +EV because when he wins (often) he can bully and take first.



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This is really the point that I tried to drive home. Obviously in SNG's, you can only win so much, and you can only amass so many chips. For the first couple of hours in a tournament, the sky is the limit. Any of us who have had huge cashes can attest to the fact that most of our major cashes have come from tournaments where we had a bigger stack going into the money. It's much easier to work from the top and 'out play' and 'out aggress' your opponents.
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