Tournament Play 

but game theory dictates that every re-entry needs to be counted as a different tournament for the purposes of tracking your own stats, just with lower overhead expenses. You can't mathematically call it 2 tries at the same tournament, because other factors like # players and stack sizes change between leaving the game and coming back in.

ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s50-poker-theory-and-analytics-january-iap-2015/lecture-notes/

1. Slides are rarely shown in the video, so you need to open the PDF in another window to follow the course. 2. On the rare occasions the slides appear in the video there are discrepancies with the PDF notes. Compare 13:25 with page 13 of ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s50-poker-theory-and-analytics-january-iap-2015/lecture-notes/MIT15_S50IAP15_L5_Tournmt.pdf for an example. 3. The video editing removed valuable chunks. Page 14 of the PDF for this lesson was completely edited out from the video, so we don't have any explanation about it. All these inconsistencies make this course series really hard to follow.

FWIW in the first lecture, he explains Harrington's zones and says he disagrees with them and why.

Dan Lokemoen Each player is maximizing their own self profit, rather than trying to just knock out a player to help the remaining group as a whole. If a group of players all call an all-in and check the rest of the streets it could be considered collusion and is illegal play.

@@npip99 No one will ever read this, but: I agree that generally you won't see everyone stay in (I said that the chance this will happens approaches 0% above), but IT IS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST and they should do it, and you can hardly accuse players of colluding when they're all individually doing what's in their personal best interest. Sure, everyone pushing in is best for the guy with the nominally best hand, but it's still the best move for everyone else. You could make a reasonable argument that a guy who is pushing most of his stack with a non-premium hand is making a mistake -- he should let the rest of the table do his work for him, but even in this case, pushing is likely a low-stack player's best move even if he knows he has the worst hand because he's already in a bad spot anyway, and the upside of winning will not ever get better (everyone is all in).

@@chaosordeal294 the chances of someone in early position limping when they could offer a raise for free to keep others from calling are very small

Do you prefer ter-ni-mint? I say tour na ment

I don't think anyone opened to 3x even back then, this guy is the ultimate 🐟 fish!

I don't know

+Brett Sylvester his statement to play early stages of tournaments like a cash game is ridiculous. The early phase of a tournament favors those with patience - If I have a 60-40 edge in cash game I will take that all day, but its not the best idea early in a tournament in a similar spot because not busting has value to it and the double up earlier in a tournament is nowhere near as valuable as a double up in a cash game

+StarrWolf64 How does that make any sense? You should be always going +EV, even if your edge is 1%

Brett Sylvester Proof?

Yeah if I'm super deep (both in chips and in terms of the stage of the game) in a tournament and I have 99 and my opponent (who is deeper than I am) shoves then shows AK I'm gonna be a 55% but am probably never calling there. Even though I am a favorite there its probably a bad idea to go with that spot.

StarrWolf64 If you are super 'deep' why would you even consider calling with 99?