05-31-2009 14:45 UTC-12

Building an Oak Tree from an Acorn

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Shamus

The size of the big blind -- 120,000 chips -- is exactly the number of chips with which each of these four players started the tournament. After having collected the other 197 entrants' chips, the average stack among these four is now just over 6 million.

That's about 50 big blinds. Stern, the current short stack with 3.335 million, has almost 28 big blinds with which to work.