I'm with John on this one. Professional pride will prevail. 300$ won't make a pros knees go weak. Much worse would be the slim chance to lose a low handicap game. Zen will have to beat a series of pros with 5 stones, before any of them will consider going down to 4. And 2 or 3 stones don't really need to be on the menu at this point. As for Dons risk/reward example: the best way to look at this is as a bankroll management problem. It turns out that bankroll utility is logarithmic.(see kelly staking). So the bet with the lower deviation is actually better in a rational sense.
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