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Originally Posted by rickroll
i don't see the point of trying to pay ladder - especially a live, 2 day $500 tourney
if you were to look at it from an expected hourly perspective you'd make more spending same time working at mcdonalds and without the risk of losing money
but then you're working at mcdonalds, so there's definitely a tradeoff
but i just think for stuff like this you want to go for it - nothing worse than getting whittled down so low that when you finally double up you still have <10bb left
Ha thanks. Just wondered what others thought on this.
Me- I go for it. I’m fine if kinda somewhat icm spew if not at final table where pay jumps actually mean something. I like going for it! Even with bluffs- if something can improve my chances to win if it works and i consider it likely to work- I’m going for it and not passing up.
Btw I put $500 into a video poker machine after tourny/ hit a $1500 payout and bounced. Left the machine with $1800 and was like I’m outta here booking a profit!
I went to Philly with 3k and ran godly in gambling. Made money playing cash ($2k?) money playing craps, and video poker. I know I’m very likely to lose and was expecting to punt my 3k trip roll but was surprised I came home with 5k profit! Played 2/5k for first time- sat with 1k and spun it to 3.6k after running godly for 3 hours. Spewed next day at 1/3 and lost but was much less than my 2/5 session. Extremely fun trip that was a super outlier. Finished 13 in tourny for 3.4k also after 2 buyins for 1k total. Wanted the win but 3.4k is ok if you ask me.