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Originally Posted by rickroll
ITT: someone that has never played mtts before
everything about this tourney is all normal stuff, it doesn't get softer than 100 man live rebuy mtts - count your blessings
also, a 10bb an hour win rate is ok, 20bb win rate would be kind of unreasonable, when I grinded live, I maintained a 17bb win rate for a while and most other regs were around a dozen or less and didn't believe I was accurately accounting or assumed I was a luckbox
it'll take months before you realize your true win rate and even then it'll ebb and flow, but winning $20 an hour at 1/1 is a fool's errand - it's neither more money than you'd earn at a normal job that required your brain nor is it really sustainable without high variance exploitive play - best bet is to move up stakes or lower expectations
$20 an hour should never be a life goal - most nearly everyone I know from my grinding days a decade ago were like you and most regret not quitting sooner - I know one guy who's still stuck in Macau grinding 25/50 (equivalent to like $3/$6) and he's ****ing miserable, constantly complaining about his life and trying to get out of it but as a man in his late 30s with an empty resume and no life skills, he's finding trouble finding a life outside playing what's lately become barely profitable poker
luckbox confirmed
True enough, although at my club the game hardly plays like a regular 1/1, half the time there is a straddle for 2 and my regular open is $12 and will often get 4 callers or more. If anyhting I am afraid certain players will run out of money soon.
But yes the game is high variance, basically they treat a draw like a made hand and will pay anything to chase it. I saw a guy call a 130 all in when he needed a 4 to a gut shot. That's the level I am talking about here.
Since the sample is still low, I figure that if I can get it close to 20 and hold it for a month or two, then I can move up stakes confidently.
I am just questioning whether I should invest time in studying MTTs, it is softer, but more profitable? Not sure quite how to calculate that. I played 5 and a half hours. So in my mind that cost me at minimum 40 for win rate at cash, plus the 40 buy in for 80.