gary must have been massively card dead given the deal for him to blind away like that with £5k locked up anyway.  Not his style of play at all.  

more shocked the short stacks have been blinded away to redic short stacks relative to the blinds when they were all gtd 5k and all the money was upstairs.

really surprised gary got this short given the deal being so flat and how he usually plays at stoke.  What is his chip count after the treble up?

[casual bet]

I disagree.  I think a fair number of sat winners (not all obv) treat the £20-£40 spent on a sat into the £300 deepstack as a casual bet like doing a football coupon etc.  If they were given the chance to close out their football coupon with one game to go to win £9k most casual gamblers would probably choose to do this.

this is not +ev, so imo starts a vicious circle.

Correct but not everyone who gambles does so for +ev spots and when they have a chance to win relative big money locking in a profit at what seems a -EV spot in pure theory can actually be +EV if you consider the uses of the cash won to save on loan/interest payments etc.  The vast majority of people consider casual forms of gambling as entertainment not investment.  Playing a £20 sat to have a shot at the big time (for most people playing the £300 at dtd would be their biggest live event ever played) then the ability to make a five figure sum whatever the EV of the deal makes a lot of sense

average stack please and gary strangs stack

people forget the opportunity cost of winning £9k.  Its not just the £9k in cash.  It could also be £5k+ saved in interest on a £9k credit card/loan repayment etc which can be cleared early.  So effectively the £9k is worth £14k potentially.  Therefore in this case making a bad EV deal a good EV deal.  Plus the added lack of stress of having debts hanging over you. Similarly if the player is staked into this the £9k might allow him to play his regular games without staking and keep a much bigger chunk of his future income to him/herself.

I doubt players who are finacially instable would make this +ev choice of repayment. I know a few degens who will just see it as 9k gambling tokens! I guess thats what brought them into the tourney in the first instance.

I disagree.  I think a fair number of sat winners (not all obv) treat the £20-£40 spent on a sat into the £300 deepstack as a casual bet like doing a football coupon etc.  If they were given the chance to close out their football coupon with one game to go to win £9k most casual gamblers would probably choose to do this.

people forget the opportunity cost of winning £9k.  Its not just the £9k in cash.  It could also be £5k+ saved in interest on a £9k credit card/loan repayment etc which can be cleared early.  So effectively the £9k is worth £14k potentially.  Therefore in this case making a bad EV deal a good EV deal.  Plus the added lack of stress of having debts hanging over you. Similarly if the player is staked into this the £9k might allow him to play his regular games without staking and keep a much bigger chunk of his future income to him/herself.

This event is one of the best events in the UK for mixing total amateurs (due to the sheer number of sat winners) and full time pros and everyone inbetween.  I dont really get why people are surprised when diff months throw up different deals on the final table depending who is has reached the final table.

what are his reasons for being anon? 

insane deal for the short stacks if the deal was done at the stated opening final table chip counts.

get there strangy.  Show Dave McCoy who stokes finest really is!!!!!!

Can you wish Gary Strang all the best.  One of stokes trickiest cash players.  Had many a good night playing cash with Gaz at the circus.  Would love to see him take this down as i am following the updates from vegas.