Fossilman: Stealing on the bubble

[benfranklin]

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I have a hard time believing that players like Dan Harrington and Al Krux only had survival on their minds. I think that's more of a SNG type mentality. Every one of these guys were in it to win it. Raymer did a great job of stealing 3mil in chips, but I don't think you can chalk it up to playing scared from a couple of the tournament greats.

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Greg didn't name names, and I'm sure that the two you mentioned weren't playing scared. I just replayed the tape, and what he said was that he was able to build his stack up to $8 million while 10 handed because "...many of these players were playing to make the final table. They wanted to finish in the top 9. They were more worried about going broke 10th then they were about maximising their position and winning the tournament."