Honestly, what is the point of tournaments?

bigdaveyt · Aug 15, 2009

Hand#19585BCE87001424 - Tournament Table 28 T6016647 -- Table 28 -- $0/$75/$150 NL Hold'em -- 2009/08/15 - 00:48:22
Seat 1: chucklehead ($6,439 in chips)
Seat 2: pckt***2 ($800 in chips)
Seat 3: Fugl***3 ($2,750 in chips)
Seat 4: shar***4 ($12,827 in chips)
Seat 5: Pr0f***5 ($1,100 in chips)
Seat 6: tani***6 ($12,000 in chips)
Seat 7: (ISH***7 ($1,365 in chips)
Seat 8: mrpe***8 ($2,400 in chips)
Seat 9: maui***9 ($4,310 in chips)
Seat 10: grag***10 ($1,350 in chips) DEALER
pckt***2: posts small blind 75
Fugl***3: posts big blind 150
Dealt to chucklehead [Qh,Qs]
shar***4: folds
Pr0f***5: folds
tani***6: calls 150
(ISH***7: folds
mrpe***8: calls 150
maui***9: calls 150
grag***10: folds
chucklehead: raises to 1,500
pckt***2: is all in 725.0000
Fugl***3: folds
tani***6: calls 1,350
mrpe***8: folds
maui***9: folds
*** FLOP *** [Jc,7d,Td]
tani***6: bets 2,125
chucklehead: is all in 4939.0000
tani***6: calls 2,814
chucklehead: shows [Qh Qs]
pckt***2: shows [Kh 4s]
tani***6: shows [Ts Ah]
*** TURN *** [7c]
*** RIVER *** [Ad]
***SHOW DOWN***
tani***6: wins 11,278 with Two Pairs, Aces and Tens
***SHOW DOWN***
tani***6: wins 2,850 with Two Pairs, Aces and Tens
chucklehead finished 313 out of 351 players.

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I came out fast and was chip leader in the 1st 5 hands. I understand that bad beats happen. But come the fuck on.

bigdaveyt · Aug 15, 2009

Anyone who says they consistently win in tournaments is a fucking liar.

ProPokerPlayer · Aug 15, 2009

Join the club. 1 thing for sure with tournys though....1 win cures a lot of pains...

HaoleLama · Aug 17, 2009

bigdaveyt said:
Anyone who says they consistently win in tournaments is a fucking liar.

exactly - I heard an interview with some pro recently (maybe it was Barry Greenstein) who said if they kept a "slugging pct" type score for tourney winners it would interesting

e.g.
win tourney = home run
final table = triple
(forgot the example for a double)
in the money = single

his point was that casinos/wpt/wsop would never ever do this because they want to perpetuate the myth that tournies are easy. If tournies were scored as he described above with everyone hitting at an amazingly low pct people would likely shy away from the live tournies altogether

bigdaveyt · Aug 18, 2009

Great point. If you remember where you saw/heard that interview, please post it.

Thanks!

ConansHammer · Aug 21, 2009

Tournies rock.......

Money management like you do in sports betting and your good to go.

Just try to understand the games finer points.:shootbb::shootbb:

soggybottomboy · Aug 23, 2009

bigdaveyt said:
Anyone who says they consistently win in tournaments is a fucking liar.

I just started playing on-line and I am in the money about 16% of my entries and my ROI is about 40%. I see players ROI much higher than that, but most players have no ROI as they put up more than they win.

So it seems to me if you can consistently play better than 80% of the other entries you win money in tournies, and that is not that hard. You need to not only be in the money but get real close or win to get the big pay-offs. (<)<