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Originally Posted by 57912
That's good to hear because that's what I've been trying to tell myself. "tournaments variance is ****ed." But like you said.. it gets hard to keep believing that, my mind starts racing about just burning away my bankroll.. and then hitting just to break even again. Just gonna work on my game and keep playing both tournaments and cash, try and keep my head down and work on the strategy stuff I suppose. Thanks for all the responses it means a lot.
The main mistake most tournament players do is just randomly playing any tournament they can find and once they increased their bankroll they climb the stakes even they make less money or the same amount of money there.
Often its not even necessary to play tournaments with $100+ buy-ins or what first place gets. Its all about the average amount of money you make at these tournaments.
If you for example play a $ 100 tournament and beat it with a ROI of 10%, you would make the same amount of money longterm as you would make with a $10 tournament which you beat with a 100%, but you will have much less variance.
What I want to say its all abount game selection. For example tournaments which dont have sattelites are usually a lot less profitable than tournaments with the same buy in which have sattelites. There are some more factors which should be included in game selection.
If you have sharkscope premium you can create a group of regular mtt players till you have a big sample for each tournament and then you will get a rough idea of how profitable each tournament is and start creating your schedule from there.