Large fields

[Royal Flush]

I was wondering if anyone here plays these comps online where you get 500+ or even 1000+ runners. I never play em, i think they are sick, lol.

However tonight i decided to try my hand at the paradise $75,000 gtd along with 1053 others, and the $20,000 gtd with 500 others.

I played for hours and hours and tired myself completly to come 51st/1054 and make a grand profi of 87$ and then i bubbled (near enough) to a bad beat in the 20k to lose $75 showing a huge profit of 12$!!!

This cant be a good way to make money, or is it? Seems like slow torture to me!

[bundle]

LMAO, yes it's tough, I played the day before yesterday. 671 runners. $24+2    3 hours or so later i busted in 29th  taking a whopping $58. I like to keep it under 350 runners

[bundle]

BTW this was the 16k GTD

[SKIPPYSKIP]

I do know the feeling in the last week though Ive won a 365 player £20 on betfasir and last nite a £10 474 runner field, but I have also spent hors playing large fields to go out and only cover your stake

[Hawkeye1976]

Hi,

I think the main difference in players views comes from whether you are playing for a living or for the enjoyment of the game. (I know you can do both)

I play as a hobby and like the idea of a smallish stake for a massive return chance....

In a week period last year I managed to win a 600 runner $10 rebuy and a 500 runner $20 F/O, nice bankroll booster. Until I gave it all away playing cash games. (but thats for another thread)

Best Regards
Steve

[Royal Flush]

Yes i think thats the diffrence.

The tournament presents great fun for a small sum, also the chance of a huge return. The comp i played was $30 rebuy with a first prize of 21k!!!

Deffo better if you play for recreation than for a living.

[Graham C]

I only play the larger ones if they are freerolls   I only play them for fun and if I can do ok, then I may get something for nothing, but Im not fussed.  I did come 3rd out of 1500 once and only 1st and 2nd got a seat to some other big tourney - not best pleased but I was pleased with coming 3rd

[snoopy1239]

I was wondering if anyone here plays these comps online where you get 500+ or even 1000+ runners. I never play em, i think they are sick, lol.

However tonight i decided to try my hand at the paradise $75,000 gtd along with 1053 others, and the $20,000 gtd with 500 others.

I played for hours and hours and tired myself completly to come 51st/1054 and make a grand profi of 87$ and then i bubbled (near enough) to a bad beat in the 20k to lose $75 showing a huge profit of 12$!!!

This cant be a good way to make money, or is it? Seems like slow torture to me!

Only in freerolls.

I prefer to play comps with 200 or less, preferabley not in excess of 100. Although the money increases, I think that the more people there are, the more your skill factor diminishes.

Plus, if it's your source of income, there really isn't enough time to sit around playing against such a large field. That win could take too long to arrive.

[TheJagster]

I have one of those 3G cards for emergenceys, plus I can log on to somone else's router, god knows where it is, I live in the middle of a field

Do you mean the field that Red lives in??

[AndrewT]

I prefer to play comps with 200 or less, preferabley not in excess of 100. Although the money increases, I think that the more people there are, the more your skill factor diminishes.

It's not that your skill factor diminishes (face it, there's still only going to be 9 other people at your table) it's that as the number of entrants increases, so will your variance. Your wins/cashes will come further apart, but they will be greater in value - your profits become more 'clumpy'.

Plus, if it's your source of income, there really isn't enough time to sit around playing against such a large field. That win could take too long to arrive.

Yes, that's your variance right there - if you need regular money coming in, clumps of money may not be enough.

AS an extreme example, say you (somehow) managed to have a 1000% edge over everyone else in the national lottery (ie your chances of winning were only 1 in 1.4 million instead of 1 in 14 million). Buying a ticket every Wednesday and Saturday would yield a profit in the long-term, but it wouldn't really be much good to you for buying the shopping every week.

[Royal Flush]

will i think the skill does go down, the longer a comp goes on for the worse the structure gets, playing smaller fields you can get an average stack at a final of 25 bb's, in these monster fields you seem to be lucky if its 10!

[sharpy]

  I agree with royal flush, I got down to last 2 tables last night in a 400+ runner comp and it was all down to playing what I call push-in poker,pick your spot and hope

[AndrewT]

will i think the skill does go down, the longer a comp goes on for the worse the structure gets, playing smaller fields you can get an average stack at a final of 25 bb's, in these monster fields you seem to be lucky if its 10!

That much is true, if you're comparing tournaments with the same structures

[Rachman]

I used to love the 20k guarantee 10 dollar rebuy on prima. Took a fair few hours, made a few final tables although 3rd was my highest finish.

Don't really have the time nowadays for long drawn out MTT's.

[M3boy]

Big Field Comps are like the lottery.

Pay a small fee to enter for the chance of winning big. (By small I mean in comparrison to the prize)

You could NOT make long term profit in these I think, but if I want to enter one , say $200 or even $500 entry fee (I am talking pokerstars now). Then I just sit down at a cash game, and if I make the buy in, then I will buy in - so to me its a sort of freeroll - Make sense?!?