Sunday, March 19, 2006

ITM: Good, Average finish: Excellent, but where is the money??

Well, this past week I played 15 tournaments, just 15 !!!

Tournaments played Monday 13 - Sunday 19

Monday:

PS $150+12 / 22 out of 566 / Won $509.40
PP $150+12 / 120 out of 1062 / Won $159.30
Para $30 / Rebuys 37 out of 873 / Won $255.25 (I spent $90)

Tuesday:

PS $150+12 250 out of 556
PP $150+12 679 out of 1004
Para $30 Rebuys 18 out of 943 Won $522.09 (I spent $180)

Thursday:

PS $150+12 68 out of 461
Para $30 Rebuys 27 out of 894 Won $364.39 (I spent $90)

Saturday:

PS $300+20 / 9 out of 215 / Won $1106.70
PP $300+20 / 36 out of 219

Sunday:

PS $200+15 / 5123 out of 5427
PP $200+15 / 141 out of 2620 / Won $335.36
Para $200 / 225 out of 769
UB $500+30 / 196 out of 220
Bodog $100+9 / 250 out of 773


First, the good news, I finished in the money (ITM) in 7 of them, this is a 47% ITM and my average finish was a whopping 28/100. To give you an idea of these numbers, based on data from the excellent site thepokerdb excellent players in the long run have ITM numbers of 15-20% and 40/100 average finish. My own numbers in the long run should be around 17% ITM and 38/100 (Not my numbers in thepokerdb site, since they track only PokerStars tournaments) .
The bad news is that even the numbers above are nice, they are not really that important, the statistic that really matters is ROI; basically how much money are you making per tournament. This last week I spent $3079 in tournaments and I won $3342.49; so, for the week I won $263.49 for a very disappointing $17.57 per tournament.
Of course this is a small sample, but my numbers for the year have been pretty similar. Barring the luck factor, these number help you to analyze which parts of your tourney stages play may need a tune up.

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