> One difference is that the amount of starting capital matters.
Well, yes and no. If you're incommunicado in some kind of locked room with a timebombed offer, sure, if you can't afford to lose the money you say no. But if someone actually offered you a 1% chance at a trillion dollars for a million dollars, you take the offer and then immediately sell the company that owns the contract for ten billion dollars and pocket the ten billion dollars.
Or sell half of it for five billion dollars and keep the other half.
Well, yes and no. If you're incommunicado in some kind of locked room with a timebombed offer, sure, if you can't afford to lose the money you say no. But if someone actually offered you a 1% chance at a trillion dollars for a million dollars, you take the offer and then immediately sell the company that owns the contract for ten billion dollars and pocket the ten billion dollars.
Or sell half of it for five billion dollars and keep the other half.