Originally Posted by dgillis

IDK if this was mentioned but, unless your really looking for strictly volume #'s, what you really need to know is how much they are putting in play. If say Andress is playing 45 @ average buy in (abi) of 50 with ROI of 50% then he's pulling down $1125 a day but if his abi is 25 then he's pulling down 562.50. What I'm getting at is how many they play a day is strictly a variance thing, if your wondering why your BR isn't growing fast enough it could also be your ABI\ROI

This is the thing most people forget.. When people are seeing other people winning all the time, it looks like they have absurd's amount of money and there BR's must be huge.. But playing such high volume also makes sure you invest a lot of money -> as a result you need to win a lot per day before you actually start making some money.

For example. Yday I won the $75ko, FT'd a couple of $75 45man SNGs and won 2 turbo STTs and got 2nd in another one. In total I cashed for ~$7-8K.. However, I invested for almost $5K. So ended up with only $2.5K profit. I'm saying only, because the next day I'll play for another $3-5K and if I don't cash that day, I'm down $500...

Still one thing.

I'm still not sure what's optimal.. Play EVERYTHING with good value ($3r, DFG etc) and all high stakes tough MTT stuff ($55r, $100r, $163fo's etc.) or just focus on high stakes stuff alone...

I don't know. It sucks to play for 8 hours in the DFG and get 11th for peanuts. But once deep in those MTTs, you can easily get good scores. However.. More focus in higher stakes also has it's benefits.

since i started playing stars i play about 20 Mtts a day w/ Mtt sngs. registering from 6pm-11:30pm
sunday 12pm - 6pm.

 

Originally Posted by JasonM163

I agree. lol this makes me want to play for one whole day registering for every micro
Tourny imaginable. I bet I would only get like 3 min cashes though lol

Think more positive than that dude! Sure there are going to be aweful bad beats like we discussed in PM's but if you play at least 20 today, I would imagine you would get pretty deep in one or two of them.

I just looked at my numbers:

I lost my job on April 2008, that's 28 months ago.
I've played over 29.000 tourneys ever since.
Considering I normally play 5 days a week, and that overall I took about 2 months off, that'd mean I've played 560 days, give or take.
That's an average of almost 52 tourneys a day when I play. I'm sure "Crazyhorse", "Blueberleez", etc, put at least 1/3 more volume than I do.

 

Originally Posted by fly44

I usually play around 35 a day which is registering from Noon until 8:30 and I play 5 days a week most of the time.

This

i probably play 25 on average. Only play about 3 days per week though. I'm going to try and increase that number.

 

Originally Posted by Crazyhorse76

This post made me count up Sunday. I keep up very clean records of everything I play. I started Reg at noon at stopped registering at midnight save a few turbos that go a touch later. I've been mostly confined to the house last 20 days or so with a medical condition, so this was an extreme example, but this past Sunday was, um 93. I play long sessions 3-4 days a week generally instead of playing 8 hours 5 or 6 days. Seems to work out best for me and my schedule.

You've been at every goddamn table of mine lately...seemingly always one or two to my left, too. WTF.

To answer the question, though...I'm kind of on Deoxy's level. I play, honestly, 0-7 days a week, 20-80 tourneys a day...I guess my average this year has been 5 days a week of around 30 mtts per day.

 

Originally Posted by chardrian

it is still hard for me to grasp how these guys put in so much volume and this is what I now do for a living...

Who needs volume when you can go deep in WSOP events :-)

If I get over 6 on my laptop I get all fked up. Twice today missed the add on b/c of it. Some of these numbers are just ridiculous.

Threads like these get me motivated to go play more pokies... thus donating more money to you guys. Now I understand why you post. Its brilliant!!

TN is the nuts!.. i only play on a mac and hate windows.

SICK SICK SICK

It varies... I still can't discipline myself to play a given amount of days a week and start at a given time. But I like it when 7pm rolls around on pokerstars because by 8:30pm I've got 15-20 MTTs going. That time period has the most scheduled low/mid stakes MTTs in any given 90-minute period of time during the day. When the day winds down I fill up otherwise wasted screen space with S&Gs.

unreal volume!
how many of u have backers?

 

Originally Posted by frenchy52

how do you manage to have that many tables open at one time. the pros must time out quite a bit . if with 2 monitors i can't do more than
8 at one time. how do you all do it ?

i stack, but pleanty of ppl play alot of tables who tile

table ninja helps