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You may be confused about this title.

After all the likes of Harrington, Gordon, Hellmuth, Duke, and even Vorhaus have reinforced through numerous writings the idea that there are th

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

ree stages to a tournament. Maybe they believe that, but I really think they may be holding back the goods. I will tell you some of the goods right here and now. Three stages to a tou

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

rnament is far too simplistic and none of these writers really play by that belief either, whether they believe it or not.

Here are the stages for online poker. See if you can recogn

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ize them and judge for yourself if they should be thought of as segments on their own.

Early stage. This is a no-brainer, but with most online poker tournaments it can usually be def

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ned as the first hour of play. In the tournament I enter that’s about four blind levels. In that first hour you are going to get to look at about 70, maybe even 100 hands played. It’s

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

also the level that will see about half the field eliminated. Most of them will be monkeys and the ones who didn’t survive the all-ins against monkeys. So sad. Oh well.

The Middle S

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

tage is called just that, because you have reached and surpassed the middle of the field and the real chip-up or get out stage begins here. How you emerge from this stage into the nex

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

t will determine a lot about your strategy for the rest of the tournament. Now we get down to about 25% to 40% of the field.

Near The Money Stage or NTM. Oh, Dan and Phil didn’t men

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

ion this stage did they? No bother, it didn’t really matter did it? Of course I am poking fun at them. It is actually a critical stage because many players have a lot of things on the

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ir mind in this stage - most of them having to do with money. There is quite a shift in thinking when real money is on the line. Many players’ bankrolls are going to be their mind as

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

well, and this creates a different playing environment. Some will tighten, some will loosen, and some will become prone to error and over betting. For a lot of fresh players, this is

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

the most stressful part of the tournament.

In The Money or ITM. Ok now a lot of stress has been alleviated but oddly a new “anxiety” has entered the game as bankroll considerations a

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

e less of a burden now. The thing is, just inside the money, really isn’t that great, especially if you paid full pop to get in, rather than a satellite. This anxiety emanates from de

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

cisions about advancing deeper into the money. ITM can be a drawn out segment involving many difficult decisions. It is here where bad beats are feared most because a double may assur

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

e you of a final table appearance and possibly serious cash. These are often the bad beats that are most talked about too. On the other hand if you are orange or red mzoned in this st

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

age, a go for it attitude against certain players may take a lot of limp-money pots which by this time are substantial.

Final Table. The prize structure is really important here and

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

s one of the main factors in deciding to play a hand or not. In other words, the value of your hole cards becomes stronger here and how you play preflop may win this tournament for yo

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

u, as many more hands are likely to be determined way before the river. The top three usually get the bulk of the cash so players really have chops set on that, but other short stacks

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

may just be happy to have made the final table and could very well be playing relaxed and win some hands with sub-par holding. There aren’t going to be many (any) weak players at thi

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

s stage no matter what your buy-in, so the final table often turns into a game of cunning and will.

Next time you play a multi-table tournament online, don’t forget to divide by five

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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