Just wanted to say your videos are very clear and concise, i enjoy your thought process and hand analysis. Thanks and keep up the good work.

@41 mins when doing bounty calcs can you confirm starting stacks and buy in is it a 10k or 5k starting stack and is it a 1k or 2k buy in. Thanks

Not its ok thanks pretty sure I understand it but for some reason I had it in my head it was a 10k starting stack but that must have been the 1k. Enjoyed the video as usual your delivery is great and you seem to go into enough detail to explain but not too much that it gets boring.

Cheers

PS the whole oldskool 'chips change value argument' makes the T4o even more of a call.

Thanks for the well thought out analysis and questions FOOBAM. I do think that considering stack sizes is perhaps one of if not the most important thing to focus on in these PSKO tournaments. The most important thing to consider when deciding if a slightly negative chip ev call to obtain a bounty should be stack utility in my opinion. If calling and losing the all in will put you at a massive disadvantage regarding stack utility (ie calling a 12bb shove from mp with TJs in the sb when your stack size is 25bbs) then I would consider it best to fold instead. Being left with <15bbs really changes your available options moving forward in the tournament, especially in a bounty tournament where people will be looking to call your shoves lighter when you get into that short stack range. However in the T4o example from the video i have well over 100bbs so my stack utility changes very little if I call and lose, and given the fact that the math is close to a correct call with almost any 2 cards when factoring in the bounty I think this makes it a pretty easy call.

I do understand your reasoning that preserving my stack for future larger bounties is something we should also be considering, but given my chip position in this example I will continue to cover everyone at this table if I call and lose here. I will also cover almost everyone in the tournament if I do end up changing tables, so its not something that worries me much. In a more shallow stacked tournament where the blinds increase more rapidly I believe this factor would be more important to consider.

The reason why we want to build a big stack to begin with in these bounty tournaments is the ability it gives us to make more speculative calls for bounties once we are deep in the tournament. Whether we like it or not, with bounties being such a large part of the prize pool in this format, we really will have to make slightly negative chip ev calls quite often as long as the math is close in order to gain the most equity possible from the prize pool.