No worries, man - glad you enjoyed

1) Urgh, tough question as I'm not someone well versed/with much familiarity with satties. Intuitively I'd say if you're playing those bigger field, decent structure satties into bigger events which also have larger fields and decent structures (those big seat guarantees to the Sunday Million come to mind), my guess would be those are fine. I'd fade satties that are fairly reg heavy.

2) Bounty MTTs are fascinating to me because I'm not 100% on how they're influencing volatility in our schedule

• Fun players love them (+)
• Even in the event we do not cash we often win back fractions of our BI (+)
• Min cash is smaller than that of a normal freezeout, usually ~ one BI (-)
• Unlike regular MTTs where all of the money is in top 3'ing, all of the money in PKOs goes to the winner (-)

Gun-to-my-head I'd predict that the PKO element results in less 'severe' downswings (i.e. rarely just go straight down 300 BIs or something which is somewhat normal in regular MTTs) while likely lending themselves to small/steady losses/breakeven stretches over larger samples as a result of actually outright winning these tournaments being so important (rare/hard to accomplish).

Bonus: I think a lot of these bigger BI PKO's are much more attractive options than their bigger BI (especially with reentries) freezeout counterparts (much better fun player:reg ratios since they appeal so much to said fun players)

Hey, glad you enjoyed!

Um, I'd say stick to what works best for your schedule/you/what you enjoy. Low stakes tournaments are still - and always will be - super profitable. If it's possible I'd recommend spreading some funds across multiple sites and adding in some Party and 888 (fields still super soft, bit less variance w/ smaller fields). That said, if you want a bit more schedule flexibility/more of an ability to start/stop sessions quickly SNGs are a great option.

EV bb/100 is super important in MTTs. You're pretty much never going to get a sample in terms of # of games in MTTs to draw any reasonable conclusions from it so EV bb/100 is my go-to and something I pay a lot of attention (probably too much attention even)

haha honestly I don't have much of any experience in the live MTT realm, but the crux of your comment is accurate. It's very difficult on average and you're just never going to come close to getting a sample size indicative of anything worthwhile. If we're being honest, I mostly ignore what's happening in live poker. Will tune in for the odd Super High Roller Bowl or PAD cash game but don't consume much in the way of live poker content outside of those things.

hey Ryan,

quick question reagrding EV bb/100. That is Allin Adj BB/100 for PT4 right?
Any idea what are standard EV bb/100 winrates for MTT regulars? maybe on the lower and the higher end?
And regarding SNGs what is a decent EV bb/100 winrate? Is it similar to MTTs or does it differ?
Thx a lot!
(These things help a lot in understanding and accepting variance and on how much we are beating the games)

Um I personally also play on BlackChip Poker...Winamax and .es are apparently very soft as well...if you're in B.C. or Manitoba I believe you can also play on a provincial site called PlayNow (haven't played there since moving to Vancouver but I'd assume it's quite soft)

Hey Guilis, thanks!

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/61/mtt-community/turbo-rake-vs-normal-rake-discussion-1185862/

No, definitely not. Max achieveable ROI is going to depend on a bunch of factors like player pool composition (how many fun players, how much are they losing for, how good are the regs, etc.), payout structure, blind structure, freezeout vs PKO, etc.

General rule of thumb would be that assuming all other things being equal (i.e. we're comparing a $55 200-person freezeout on PS to a $55 2k-person freezeout on PS w/ identical blind level structure) your achieveable ROI is going to be >>> in the 2k-person field. Then I assume (not 100%) there is some inflection point where your ROI becomes so much higher in the 2k-person field that the difference in variance becomes negligible (it's possible I'm wrong and variance is still way more massive in the larger field MTT)

so you could argue that for these buyin ins even (or especially) the
small fields are very soft and therefore your ROI is basically the
same but you cut out a lot of variance, no?

Again, I don't think so. And I believe that's to do w/ ROIs just being more naturally capped in the smaller field tournament.

Looking at the PS schedule from yesterday, there is a $22 5k at 1am PST and a $22 20k at 10am PST. The 5k got 295 runners and the top three (3) payouts were $1057 (48 BIs), $664 (30 BIs), $489 (22 BI's); the 20k got 1428 runners and the top three (3) payouts were $3976 (180 BIs), $2149 (98 BIs), $1576 (72 BIs). Every payout in the top four (4) of the 20k got paid more than the winner of the 5k did.

Even though the 20k guaranteed is going to have better regulars in it than the 5k guaranteed tournament, it's going to have more than enough fun players losing at decent clips to make up for this. Something else that's going to help your max achievable ROI in these bigger field tournaments is that there is more money on the line at the end --> higher stress factor --> people playing poorly (almost always in the direction of playing too tight). It's a very lucrative spot for a good player to find themselves.

So yeah, I still think at the lowest stakes the achievable ROI is going to be considerably higher in the bigger field events.

do you know what decent ROIs are for those 180man lower buyins?
I do not. Sharkscope should lend some insight here, check their leaderboards feature. My guess would be that in something like the $2 turbos one could obtain an ROI > 20% and I know a few guys who still make a killing grinding the $3r's full-time.