Winning Rate of Good Tournament Players

13.03.2008, 13:49 0

In one of the startegy articles (I don't remember which one), it states that a good tournament player wins $5 for every $1 buy-in on average.

I don't see how that can be possible, especially on FullTilt.

Let's take the 5 + .5 tournaments for example.

In the 5 + .5 9hd SnG, the 1st place is awarded about 20 dollars. Same with the 5 + .5 6hd. So if we neglect the .5 we pay for each tournament (which I doubt you can on a long enough timeline), we would be winning four times our buy-in, meaning $4 for every $1 if WE HAD WON EVERY TOURNAMENT.

Concludingly, that would mean: if I was winning EVERY tournament I play on that limit, I still would not be considered a good player, since I can't even win $5 for every $1.

How's that possible on single-table SnGs?

And, second question: what is actually a realistic winning ratio for a single-table tournament player?

8 replies

Mugge88

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13.03.2008, 14:20 0

5$ profit for every 1$ invested sounds ridiculous.

When talking about SNG's a ROI of 30%+ is possible for the very good players at the lower limits. As you move up I would say that keeping a stable ROI of 15%+ is very good. Still you shouldn't focus that much on your ROI at first, but solely on your decisions, and over time the ROI should be rising as well.

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Mugge

chenny8888

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13.03.2008, 16:23 0

44% is the absolute maximum (this was calculated somewhere, i forget where) in the longrun. therefore you should aim for an ROI of something like 30%+ for the low limits.

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13.03.2008, 18:52 0

Originally posted by nzmklc
In one of the startegy articles (I don't remember which one), it states that a good tournament player wins $5 for every $1 buy-in on average.

It was mentioned in HOH V1 but it was for MTT's!

_Anonymous_

13.03.2008, 23:45 0

Originally posted by bresha

Originally posted by nzmklc
In one of the startegy articles (I don't remember which one), it states that a good tournament player wins $5 for every $1 buy-in on average.

It was mentioned in HOH V1 but it was for MTT's!

O_o

MTTs are even swingier than SnGs! This can't be right. Please tell me this isn't right!

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14.03.2008, 05:06 0

even if it's in the book (which i've read thoroughly, although only once), it's not right.

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_Anonymous_

14.03.2008, 13:22 0

That means you would have a 500% ROI, impossible in SNG's and the only people which have done this in MTT's are people who have had a massive win over a small sample size.

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14.03.2008, 14:33 0

Jerry Yang has an ROI of like 80000%

Nunki

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14.03.2008, 21:49 0

Originally posted by chenny8888
even if it's in the book (which i've read thoroughly, although only once), it's not right.

I read the book about 18 months ago and have a vague recollection that Harrington gave an expert about a 3:1 overlay in a tournament such as the WSOP main event due to the large number of online-qualifiers whom have very little live experience.

I suppose a good player in a lowish-level rebuy MTT might approach something like 3:1 but who knows for sure.

5:1 in a SNG corresponds to taking 1st every time.

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