What Percent of Tournys do You Cash In?

[lwestatbus]

For you experienced NL tourny players out there: What percentage of tournaments that you enter would you say you cashed in? Also, what would you say is your winnings as a percent of buy-ins?

Any information you want to provide on the types of tournys you usually play would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Garoen]

To date I've cashed in 13 out of 52 Multi-Table tournaments entered, roughly 25%. I've taken 44 dollars in prizes against 34 dollars in buy-ins for a 30% return of investment.

The tournaments I play most often are $1.00+.10 45-man NL Holdem. My progress is painfully slow but if I can maintain the same cash % at higher limits it will become profitable.

[mortaleclipse]

I average cash in about 16%-17% of tournies I play in according to OPR. Now my ROI is like 160% or something like that. I was reading your post on other thread about cant seam to get anything going in tournies and your stack compared to others.

Well I got a couple suggestions that may help if at all. I play on full tilt now instead of Stars for a couple of reasons. the blind strucutre on fult tilt is alot more I think for the patient player. After first hour of play if I havent gotten much going i dont feal pressured on tilt to be all in, the blind structure is alot more slow paced then on stars.

On stars the blinds after first break are 75/150 and on tilt I believe they are only 40/80 on normal tournies. Thats HUGE, also fealing not having enough chips compared to average chip stack should not affect your play. Only your chip stack compared to your table is what really matters. Last night after taking down the 3rebuy when there was only 54 players left I had 6x BB, let me say taht again 6X BB. feal free to message me and maybe I can give you a pointer were you think things might be going sour for you.

[Gunslinger]

the blind structure is alot more slow paced then on stars.

The blinds go up slower on FT but the levels themselves are longer on Stars. About a year ago I did a comparison of what your M would be with a starting stack after each hour in a standard tourney on each site, and they were a lot closer than the slower structure on FT would lead you to believe.

Maybe the structures have all changed since then, I'm solely a cash game player now, so I could easily be wrong.

[Jauron]

I cashed way too often and make serious runs too little. I think my cash was around 40-50% when I stopped playing them. They were mostly lower stakes 1500+ players, it really wasn't hard to cash.