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Boobie Lover · #1 09-12-06, 01:29 PM

I'm fairly certain your average hourly rate would be higher just playing 10/20 and 5/10 NL than to play all but the main event, and that is probably even a little high even for your bankroll. If you were to play, you would probably have to sattellite into which would most definately decrease it below your hourly rate of just playing cash games.

MAYHEM45 · #2 09-12-06, 02:08 PM

Yeah but can you win a sweet bracelet in the cash games?

Talking Poker · #3 09-12-06, 03:28 PM

I don't think it's fair to compare one's hourly rate from cash games to tourneys. MOST of the time in tourneys, you end up logging a losing session... but those very few times you go deep have a way of significantly changing your totals.

Boobie Lover · #4 09-12-06, 03:42 PM

I don't understand this logic. I've had big losing/winning sessions in cash games before, and that affects my short term hourly rate but I can figure out my long term hourly rate after say 100K hands. The same should be true for tourneys right? Why bother playing in an eight hour tournament where you expect to make $1500 on average when you can play for eight hours and expect to make $4K on average if you play cash games?

JDMcNugent7 · #5 09-12-06, 03:59 PM

hmm i dn wut im gonna do but i think im leaning towards playing them actually.
i mean ya the hourly is probably worse, but its once a year and it should be kinda fun.
also, im buying directly in as i think thats the best use of my $.

Talking Poker · #6 09-12-06, 06:52 PM

I guess I don't feel that I - or anyone, really - can possibly have a big enough MTT sample size (Have you played 100,000 MTTs? Have you even played in 10,000?) to know what their true hourly rate is.

Take Jamie Gold... if he's played in 10 big tourneys (and I don't think he has), do you really think it's fair to say that he is averaging winning $1.2 million per tourney he plays in? Of course not.

With a given cash game, the most you can win or lose is $x over 8 hours. Just for fun, let's say you're playing $5/$10 NL and that number is, I dunno... $10k. Now, with a $10k tourney, the most you can lose is once again $10k, but you could win (depends on the tourney) millions.

It's just apples and oranges.

Quint · #7 09-12-06, 10:33 PM

If this were true would any of the successful big time cash players play tourneys? Or would they just follow the circuit and wear out the players that bust out of the tourney in cash games?

the thing about these huge tourneys, live or online, is that just one win, or even one final table, skew your average enough to make playing in them +EV.