Btw: Beav what do you think about this strategy- double up, and THEN see a lot of flops? (assuming you're tight but get lucky early)

it depends a lot on table conditions.

if your opponenets are weak and passive, I would be loose the entire time.

I try to see as many flops as I can early, but if the table is aggressive I tighten way up.

I dunno if anyone will ever make sense of this topic, as far as I can tell. You guys have done as well as two other places. I'm simply too math-disoriented to understand it.

Not everything is math based.

"My dear, I can no longer love you because you're -EV."

"My penis is 9.3" long, therefore I have a 200% chance of getting laid, tonight."

You can compare the avg player with Phil Ivey. Easy. Using chips as ammo, Phil Ivey is far more accurate with each bullet, therefore, the more bullets, the greater chance of him killing you. The more bullets you have, the better chance you'll survive and one of yours might accidently hit him.

The most valuable chip is the first one. You're still in it. Doubling up has no value. However, the value of 100 is greater than 20, as a significant raise with 100BB is less a percentage of the stack than it is for the 20BB, therefore the value of the total chips is greater, the larger it is.

There is simply so much crap in the arguments that no one ever reduces it to simple, understandable, average-Joe language.

It is better to be tight early, if you aren't a very good player. It is better to be loose early, if you are. To the average player, each chip has greater value, where to the very good player, it's the total chips that have value.

Does Sklansky ever confuse himself?