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Originally Posted by Daliman
Too often high-level analysis like Doug's discusses optimal/non-exploitable play, but the vast majority of players play a suboptimal, highly exploitable game that allows you to do things like fold KK preflop. This is one of those cases, and doesn't even factor for things like EV of final tabling, etc.
this is no longer relevant.
a decade ago you could make some plays that ignored ICM (more "play to win") because there's more sponsorship dollars and EV that came with winning the bracelet.
winning main event doesnt mean anything anymore. i sincerely doubt the sponsorship opportunities you get from winning the main come out to more than like 25k or something.
i could be wrong on this, but i dont see anyone jumping at the bit to get main event winners doing photo ops or play as the celebrity in some tournament. even if they are, i think earnings on that are low (hence 25k estimate).
maybe theres value if you're a negreanu type who already has the sponsor and the means to extract extra pageviews, but outside of that goooood luck.