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Originally Posted by ImsaKidd
I don't think this is true at all. I can see arguments for $0, $1, $9000 (ish), and everything. Numbers between $1 and $9k are probably valid too.
Nope. A huge issue for contestants is wishy washy wagering, trying to give themselves some small chance of winning while not wagering everything. And this usually reduces their winning chances tremendously. You make the wager that gives the best winning chances. It's that simple. And you can't try to anticipate what stupid wager the person next to you is going to come up with under the lights when they haven't prepared for the situation.
So, in this very binary instance, you've got two options and it's almost totally dependent on how you feel about the category. This FJ wager plays out almost exactly like a DD in the first round. The only valid optimal wagers are the minimum or the maximum. You rarely see it on the show, but I've always said it takes just as much guts to correctly wager nothing in FJ as it does correctly wagering everything.