Maddsoul, thanks for the feedback here. It's nice to know that people are getting something out of a video topic like this. Here's to your progression through the ranks! Feel free to ask any questions that this video sparked for you, or down the road if something is on lingering on your mind. GL. 

Also what kind of ROI can you expect. I see guys with close to 100%, but usually they have a huge score in a tourney above their AVG. Buyin.

Hello Everytime. This is the best resource to help one understand the variance involved in MTT. Here is a follow-up post to that first link. He has other entries in his blog for other formats of NL; STT, cash, etc. I haven't read those posts yet though. 

In short, yes it's more than possible for a good player to have multiple consecutive losing months. One interesting point from those blog posts is that some players with a positive ROI actually are favorites to lose on any one given Sunday because of variance. Crazy. Dropping tables is good in the sense that your ROI on each of the other tables should be a bit higher, since you're making better decisions on each of them. At least in theory. 

You should have more attention and focus on each of those tables, and that should lead to you gathering more information, which should lead to better decisions. However, cutting tables also reduces your volume, which is your main weapon against variance. I spent 3 months last year playing 5-6 days a week, long  session, but only capping out on 8-10 tables at a time. Since then, I've made it a goal to be able to play more tables effectively. I'm consciously emphasizing this because I want to increase my volume to reduce variance. I also want to improve faster, and I think making more decisions is a good way to do that. Of course, if I'm not able to keep up with the table load, none of these benefits will materialize, and I'll actually be costing myself significant EV. 

I would say the top players in HSMTT can have a 100% ROI. This is like 10 people though. More could achieve that ROI, but they're playing cash games or high rollers. The ROI one can expect for themselves depends significantly on their skill and also their ABI. Just understand that there is a lot of variability in what one can do to design their schedule, and that is ultimately going to have a major bearing on their ROI. 

Here is a calculator you can play with (I just stumbled on it while searching for links, looks good on a quick glance but I'm not certain). This thread has some interesting and even good anecdotal information and is good food for thought. One last thread. There is a bunch of information on this stuff on the forums. If you look hard enough, you can answer all of your questions about this topic. I'm happy to help answer questions you've got here a well. 

I appreciate that man! Thanks for watching. I've caught a couple of your live Sunday series and enjoyed them. That's a neat niche you've got there, recording the biggest day of the week. Cheers and GL. 

Haha. Yeah this hand was a bit.. adventurous. I'm making a lot of assumptions that have to be right. One of them is that he doesn't have much 9x in his flatting range preflop. A9s and T9s jump out as pretty much for sure hands he'll have here, but what about J9s or Q9s? They would likely be in my flatting range, but I'm not sure about his. The more 9x combos he can have, the (much) worse my call is. Really what it comes down to here is that I could count every single combination of hand he could have here, both for value and for bluffs. Then I simply see how many there are of each, weigh that against the approximate 2:1 pot odds I'm getting, and call or fold. I could estimate a very favorable or best case scenario for myself, and a worst case scenario just to see the parameters of this situations. For example, in the worse case scenario I could say he's flatting as wide as 96s for example. That way he has so many combos of 9x that it's going to make this an awful call by me. 

Hey Sirocko, good to see you here. I've recognized your name for quite some time now. I remember playing with you over the past 6 months in some FTP satellites on Sundays. You do a good job of identifying my ranges and playing yours accordingly. 

I hope this graph is useful to you. It will show you how much of what buyin I've played over the past year or so. The 2nd graph is your typical profit graph.

Hope this helps and GL. 

Hello Jean-Serge. Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad this idea is hitting home with several of you subscribers. 

Hello Phil! This will vary quite a bit depending on a few things - one's ABI, one's skill, and one's results (as they relate to variance and plain 'ol luck!). Mine isn't useful to anyone, because it is skewed by a big score. This might make a good topic for a post in the forums as well. 

Looks like we have got ourselves a troll.