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Originally Posted by AsianMasseuseEV
Staples, please play cash.
Are you implying this is such a crazy bad move you want to square up to him at the cash tables?
I am pretty sure Jaime could beat me at cash and so I'll stay off that one and I am also not really all that hot at progressive knock-outs but it seems to me this is the type of move worth trying once in a while in such an aggro tournament format.
If you notice the utg+1 opened 2x and will have spotted that the BB has only 4.3bb and a small but juicy bounty, also there are 2 other players (7.1bb and 12bb) where you wouldn't really mind too much being the underdog if they decide to push due to their bounties. And it is the stone cold bubble, 199 remaining 198 paid.
All this points to there being a very good chance that this utg+1 is much wider than 'normal' and so probably making this player quite willing to fold to a 3-bet. Due to it being on the bubble there is a good chance that it will fold back around to the utg+1 putting this player into a difficult decision, or even with a lot of luck maybe getting HU with the BB with lots of overlay and a bounty
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Progressive knockouts, by there nature, are very aggro type of tournament and if you don't adjust to this bounty structure you're dropping lots of value.
From this screenshot Jaime is 47th of 199, and clearly from his own current $129 bounty size has already picked up nearly 1.5 x the buy-in in bounties so is already +ve roi in it and also about to get itm, so go Jaime.