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Originally Posted by DoubleFly
Just from a opportunity cost perspective, even if you're a 2 to 1 favorite over the field, you're only expected to make $5 on the event, and it'll probably be an average time commitment of 3-4 hours. Compared to if you just played a cash game, most good players make $10 per table per hour (of $5 per table per hour if you're a rakeback pro like me), so it just seems -ev on a relative basis.
Also, I just get tilted like hell repeatedly getting bounced out on 2 outers, so maybe I'm just jaded. :-)
Most people that play donkaments don't play 1 at a time ldo. When I play a session I usually play 10-12 or so with avg. buyin around $100. My lifetime ROI is around 75% so works out to about $750 for an avg. session length of 4 or 5 hours. Now granted some session can go for 12-14 hours if you get deep in something, but that can often mean 5 figures so I don't have a problem with it.
On the other side, nothing is quite as life tilting as getting bad beated/coolered on the FT bubble of a big donkament and losing thousands of dollars in equity. Hence the reason I know play more cash than MTT's. Also, 80-90% of MTT session's you lose money so that part kinda sucks also.