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Old 13th May 2008, 11:03 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Because you will often still have some fold equity with 6bb's, especially if rest of the table is short, and I'd prefer to go out than play a stack less than that. The value of doubling up is worth taking the chance. I think i'd have made a light move before 6bb's, at about 9 or 10 bb's, to avoid having to do this. At 6bb's i'm just looking for a spot to push any two, i have no interested in holding on by my fingernails, especially in a MTT where the early payouts are so rubbish. It is simply much harder to recover your stack when you drop any lower than 6, and 6 is prob already a little on the low side.
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