Re: [ba-poker] Re: Re: [FARGO] Is 3:2 Enough? Thanks

[William Chen <wchen_8369(deleted the rest)>]

--- Andrew Prock <prock(deleted the rest)> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> 
> > I don't remember the blind/stack details but I
> don't see how he could be
> > getting 5-1 unless the big blind was half his
> stack.
> 
> You're right, I can't tell my left foot from my
> nose.
> He was getting 2.7:1 odds.
> 
> Still juicy odds for quite a few hands.
> 
> - Andrew
> 


Your confusing chip equity and tourney equity. 
Usually the two are pretty close in value,  but in the
case where there's a significant step in the money and
two tall stacks decide to go gone all-in we get a
little bit of non-linearity.