Any1 playing online tourneys full time ?

ZZR1100

Just looking at the OPR rankings and there is quite a few doing this full time with some making serious money.
Even some of the guys who have not had a major win seem to make a steady return. 7000 players showing a profit of 5k+ up to 483k in the last 120 days on stars

ditpoker

how many players would stars have online at any time? 100k? if so only 7% making profit... and 5k in 4 months is not an income.. but i'd be love someone to justify the sustainability of playing MTT's as an income as its by far my preferred game.

Requiem4adream

I play mtt's full time. You can opr me zzr100 (rooney_dives), might cheer me up have had a bad few days!! Eh personally i believe grinding/playing mtt's is a very tough way of making a living. In my favour i've no responsibilities or commitments and dont really mind if it takes weeks or months between cashouts. I put in long hours often for no reward. I played 16 hours the last 2 days and played probably right up to 100% my maximum ability and still got crushed, ran ridiculously bad. You need an immense amount of patience and humility even to keep churning them out.

I like the sense of achievement in mtt though - a start and finish line.

LuckyLloyd

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shoutman

I think the feeling of winning a MTT is probably unmatched in cash games, obviously you get the happy feeling when you finally stack a donk, but for the most part for the winning cash game players playing micro/low limits its pretty much small success after small successs, grinding out the profit. Yes it is great to see after a month you are up $600. But often I envy those who post in the BB sticky saying that they've just taken down the 5k guaranteed or what have you.
Winning MTT's is a great feeling, and if you don't do it regularly it can put you on a high for days. Howwever I could never do it full time. I find getting knocked out of one MTT 4 hours in soul destroying. How I would cope with facing this prospect multiple times on a daily basis? I don't know. But fair dues to anyone doing it. Undoubtedly there are those who are hugely +EV in online MTTs, I dare say even I am having played a few ones lately.

ZZR1100

Requiem4adream wrote: »

I play mtt's full time. You can opr me zzr100 (rooney_dives), might cheer me up have had a bad few days!! Eh personally i believe grinding/playing mtt's is a very tough way of making a living. In my favour i've no responsibilities or commitments and dont really mind if it takes weeks or months between cashouts. I put in long hours often for no reward. I played 16 hours the last 2 days and played probably right up to 100% my maximum ability and still got crushed, ran ridiculously bad. You need an immense amount of patience and humility even to keep churning them out.

I like the sense of achievement in mtt though - a start and finish line.

cant argue with 68k since Oct 07.Was it then u started full time ?
why is your ITM low (14%) ? playing the bubble aggressive or playing the whole tourney aggressive?
Got any tips / strategy for playing these low buy in tourneys.

I have tried playing tourneys during the day recently as the cash games are much tougher during the day and also for a change.
i find them much more rewarding (mentally) than cash.
i just need to figure out how to make them rewarding financially
btw kawasakii on stars

Requiem4adream

Well ... i havent had a job in a few years (that was chartbusters part-time lol) so poker sustains my lifestyle. Ehhh my ITM 14% last 120 days is mostly down to the high volume of $12 180 mans turbos ive been playing.... ITM is top 18 and its pretty much a crapshoot where ive been running sick bad. If you check the top players out, most of them have between 12-18% ITM, 17-18% being excellent. Mine is normally 15%. I dont really recommend playing mtt for a living as a sole source of income tbh.

Edit- your 23% ITM is completely unsustainable over a large sample

cooker3

The good thing about mtts is they are like a story they have a begining a middle and a end but to play them for a living must be soul destroying, I don't think I can ever do it. The swings are just so great.

The advantage of cash is it's more stable and while when you start off at microstakes the money is not going to mean much I think it's better to look at it almost like an apprenticeship. As in my case it's really starting to come good lately and I made a decent amount of money

ntlbell

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

The idea of playing online MTTs for a living seems like slow torture to me. Maybe to be done during lent as a form of Penance?

yeah because grinding cash games is so much more..sexier.........

ianmc38

5k in the last 120 days sounds absolutely grim.

LuckyLloyd

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ntlbell

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Hey, it all seems like going self - employed as an admin worker to myself!! Online pro = the pain.

I think you have to be a little bit of a nut case to even consider it.

A mind almost like a developer.

a.con

Requiem4adream wrote: »

Well ... i havent had a job in a few years (that was chartbusters part-time lol) so poker sustains my lifestyle. Ehhh my ITM 14% last 120 days is mostly down to the high volume of $12 180 mans turbos ive been playing.... ITM is top 18 and its pretty much a crapshoot where ive been running sick bad. If you check the top players out, most of them have between 12-18% ITM, 17-18% being excellent. Mine is normally 15%. I dont really recommend playing mtt for a living as a sole source of income tbh.

Edit- your 23% ITM is completely unsustainable over a large sample

How do you find on-line playing?
And do you actually make enough to live off??

RoundTower

ZZR1100 wrote: »

cant argue with 68k since Oct 07.

lol donkaments

Requiem4adream

a.con wrote: »

How do you find on-line playing?
And do you actually make enough to live off??

Very tiring. Well the way i play anyway is very tiring, i play long continuous sessions multi-tabling 6-14 tables.

I live at home with the mammy still (just gone 25) and dont drive so my cost of living is pretty negligible. I do ok overall... i'm not rich put it that way! Anyone hoping to get rich from mtt will need a big score like a sunday million win or a big live win.

a.con

Do you make much profit from playing?
Do you live off the money??
How did you get into on-line poker, did you start off with just live poker or wat.

RichieLawlor

a.con wrote: »

Do you make much profit from playing?
Do you live off the money??
How did you get into on-line poker, did you start off with just live poker or wat.

Might as well throw RD in the Well