How many tourneys have 5k+ players?

So how many did you lose?







Seriously though, imo since it is "Top 3" that makes the serious moneyz and to get more than 5x your buyin back you've gotta make maybe Top 6 or 7, you've gotta make a choice: either "A" play the 1000+ entry flipaments where you are VERY rarely gonna make the FT, but the HUNDREDS of buyins you earn for a Top 3 finish is worth the RunBad you'll experience on the way... or else "B" just play <200 entry tourneys, where you have a far higher chance of surviving to the final table, at which point you might only earn 10-20 x your buyin, but if you can do it relatively consistently then it's gonna be long-term profitable for you, in a far shorter time.


Personally I have found the "sweet spot" for me in live MTTs (usually $40..$70 buyin) is around 35-50 entries, unless I bust out really early on a cooler (or a moron chasing bad and hitting on the river) I will have a 2x average stack from the first break right to the final 2 tables, and I can sense when to take advantage of the nits to build my stack up HUGE before we become the final table -- essentially I just gotta survive from the start to 20-ish players, then I can focus on building a "take it down" sized stack. BUT it seems with 60+ entries there is just so many more flips I gotta survive to make it to the final 2 tables, which means either I bust more often or else I play tighter and thus have a shortstack at the final table (or possible bust out at the final 2 tables since I won't be able to survive my first all-in that I lose).


So anyway TL;DR "if the high variance of larger-field MTTs makes you feel that MTTs are way too much luck for your emotional comfort level, then play smaller field MTTs and enjoy more frequent Top3 cashes, even if they aren't as insanely large as you woulda got in the larger-field MTTs". imo.

what goes on here?


Ummm MTTs are hard yo, sometimes you run good, some times you run bad, sometimes you run into a cooler, sometimes you get bad beat.... it happens-

so said "donk" calls your shove with AQ and sucksout vs your AK--- this is a pretty standard beat, in fact the exact same thing happened to me at a miniftops FT to KO me in 5th place instead of giving me 75% of chips in play--- dude called my 5bet shove with AQ. This was very heartbreaking considering I had dominated the entire field of a bunch pf players and first place was "life-changing" monies (something like 185k as opposed to the 16k I got for 5th place).

Bottom line is- would you feel better if he had called with AA or KK, or even QQ for that matter. You ran into a hand and got beat by the board. There are no sure things in a single tourney unless you shove the nuts after the river card is dealt. The goal for mtts is to make the best plays and eventually over the long term you should win money, but judging yourself or anyone else based on the results of one tourney is silly.

As far as your challenge goes... FTP had a lot less players than PS, but I back to back shipped the turbo fiddy on ftp- I am fairly certain the variance of turbos makes up for the lower number of -players. I also shipped the turbo fiddy, then immediately registered for a regular $55 game and shipped that one too, so I really don't think your challenge is much of a challenge, everything just has to line up right.

eep, we all iz in da presence of GREATNESS y'all! ...nice to see you here again** bro! Thanks for your silly accidental inspirational words, now you've done gone and gotten some of us thinking MTTs are beatable again...





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