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[QUOTE="Dara OKearney, post: 5111709, member: 390655"]
That's  a really interesting question. I can't claim to speak for Tom or even necessarily know for sure what he exactly meant, but I can say I would make a similar remark and explain what I mean by it. A small part of it is that a lot of the strategy is very dull and mechanical (like fold everything beyond a certain point), but mostly it's just that because the mental challenges of a satellite are particular to satellites, most normal mtt players don't have much practice dealing with them. There are all sorts of mental game challenges specific to satellites that we were fortunate enough to have Jared Tendler contribute one chapter of the book on that cause people to set equity on fire in satellites. Bubbling a satellite is much worse than bubbling an mtt, and players who bubble a normal mtt can console themselves saying they were playing not to win cash but for the win. In a satellite, the min cash and the win are one and the same (except in rate cases) so the pressure not to bubble is massive. A lot of people can't take that pressure and try to "take matters into their own hands": they lack the discipline to keep making big folds because it feels bad and just prolongs the tension.

I hope this answers your question.
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