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  1. shanetrain22 shanetrain22 is offline

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    Jul 24th, 2007 (7/24/2007 11:31pm)

    How well do you think the best online pro players (or one specific player, if you wish) would do if, say, they played 2,000 small stakes MTTs? Let's say they could only play MTTs ranging from $1 to $10 buyins. Also, assume they would put just as much ambition, concentration, effort, etc. into these tournies as they do in the high stakes tournies they actually play on a regular basis.

    What kind of ROI do you think they'd have over this fairly large sample size? Would the highly successful TAG players do much better than the great LAG players?
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  2. showtime90 showtime90 is offline

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    Jul 24th, 2007 (7/24/2007 11:32pm) in reply to shanetrain22

    honestly id think theyd still do well

    just play really standard and dont try to outplay the donks too hard or itll backfire

    only thing really stopping them is variance (which comes in big numbers from huge fields etc)
  3. gbmantis gbmantis is offline

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    Jul 24th, 2007 (7/24/2007 11:36pm) in reply to showtime90

    I would have liek a 700% roi at least.

    ps howd things with the girl turn out lol
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  4. shanetrain22 shanetrain22 is offline

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    Jul 24th, 2007 (7/24/2007 11:38pm) in reply to gbmantis

    Haven't seen her in a long time... finally realized I couldn't stand the bitch lol.
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  5. AFink93 AFink93 is offline

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    Jul 24th, 2007 (7/24/2007 11:54pm) in reply to gbmantis

    Mantis PWNS 1 dollar Deep Stack tourneys on stars. .The good old days of P5's
  6. Mr. Blonde Mr. Blonde is offline Supreme Moderator

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    Jul 25th, 2007 (7/25/2007 12:09am) in reply to AFink93

    we get one every once in a while to join Micro Mayhem...and they fail terribly.
     
  7. Stupor_Mundi Stupor_Mundi is offline

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    Jul 25th, 2007 (7/25/2007 1:52am) in reply to shanetrain22

    Yellowsub played the 3r a bunch of times and destroyed it, FTing twice... I also remember seeing GB2005 in it a few times alone with Shaundeeb. These guys are not the top ranked, but they did pretty well. I agree with showtime's assertion about variance and not trying to play too over the level of the tourney, but I think they would do pretty well if the fact that they wouldn't give a crap about the small amounts for a win weren't involved.
  8. towelie towelie is offline

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    Jul 25th, 2007 (7/25/2007 1:53am) in reply to Stupor_Mundi

    I'd guess u'd see 300% ROI
  9. Mr_BigQueso Mr_BigQueso is offline

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    Jul 25th, 2007 (7/25/2007 2:01am) in reply to shanetrain22

    gboro won a $1 mtt during the april tlb bet, which was stupid cause it paid out fewer dollars than TLB's
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  10. apestyles apestyles is offline Moderator

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    Jul 25th, 2007 (7/25/2007 2:07am) in reply to shanetrain22

    Low buy ins are super super easy imo. I got alot of experience with them in the tlb bets I've been in. People are way too loose early and way too tight late as a whole. I'm pretty certain I could have a 2-300 roi in < 10 dollar freezeouts.
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  11. ShooterJ ShooterJ is offline

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    Jul 25th, 2007 (7/25/2007 2:22am) in reply to apestyles

    they'd crush
  12. JernejZorec JernejZorec is offline

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    Jul 25th, 2007 (7/25/2007 2:31am) in reply to shanetrain22

    Annette won a 4$ 180 playin without looking at cards
    i think that tells u what they can do at micros if they would focus
  13. zacman51 zacman51 is offline

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    Jul 25th, 2007 (7/25/2007 3:01am) in reply to shanetrain22

    It would probably make us really despressed to see how ridiculously well they would do...
     
  14. gboro780 gboro780 is offline

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    Jul 25th, 2007 (7/25/2007 3:40am) in reply to zacman51

    they would crush. i would say its tougher to cash consistently in the micros due to all of the minefields but its also way easier to accumulate and build a final table stack once you get deep.

    most people in the low buyins freeze up in the end game cause they don't have experience there.
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  15. Zota15 Zota15 is offline

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    Jul 25th, 2007 (7/25/2007 3:56am) in reply to zacman51

    Well i used to play 1 and 2 dollar tourneys all the time before moving up to 10 or 20s...... Every once in a while i will player a 1-3 dollar now and i am appauled at how horrible the play is. Soooo much easier than bigger buyins. I could easily have a 200% roi at micro stakes and i suck at poker in general.
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