View Full Version : Why the mini-steps suck (long/complicated math)
Irieguy
05-02-2005, 01:02 AM
I played my way up to a step 5 mini today and then got 10th place on the first hand.
I don't like them.
Irieguy
raptor517
05-02-2005, 01:04 AM
yea dude, thats too difficult for my little brain to comprehend. grats on getting there though, A for effort. holla
BDarch
05-02-2005, 01:06 AM
i never understand Irie's posts
illab
05-02-2005, 01:06 AM
KK vs AA?
stupidsucker
05-02-2005, 01:12 AM
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i never understand Irie's posts
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lol
Maulik
05-02-2005, 01:14 AM
play the 100/200 on pokerchamps, apparently Hansen is there now.
brilliant
Scuba Chuck
05-02-2005, 01:20 AM
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I played my way up to a step 5 mini today and then got 10th place on the first hand.
I don't like them.
Irieguy
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Now that's the kind of math I can get my fingers around. Thanks for the hard work and results. Saved me some time.
Scuba
Irieguy
05-02-2005, 01:21 AM
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play the 100/200 on pokerchamps, apparently Hansen is there now.
brilliant
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Hansen? That band with the 3 blond brothers? I think they suck, too... and I don't think they're old enough to gamble. Maybe the oldest brother is, I'm not sure.
Irieguy
Maulik
05-02-2005, 01:23 AM
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play the 100/200 on pokerchamps, apparently Hansen is there now.
brilliant
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Hansen? That band with the 3 blond brothers? I think they suck, too... and I don't think they're old enough to gamble. Maybe the oldest brother is, I'm not sure.
Irieguy
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the Dane, Gus of course.
brilliant
BDarch
05-02-2005, 01:24 AM
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play the 100/200 on pokerchamps, apparently Hansen is there now.
brilliant
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Hansen? That band with the 3 blond brothers? I think they suck, too... and I don't think they're old enough to gamble. Maybe the oldest brother is, I'm not sure.
Irieguy
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they must have made more off of mmmmbop than i thought
EverettKings
05-02-2005, 01:25 AM
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I played my way up to a step 5 mini today and then got 10th place on the first hand.
I don't like them.
Irieguy
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This might have just been a fun post for a few laughs, but I actually did some mathematical analysis of the mini steps and my estimated play (I've played a small chunk) and deemed them profitable, albeit time consuming. Their best aspect is the risk/reward ratio, where I found that I'd pay for an average of 7 step 1 buy ins to earn one step 5 buy in (~1000% ROI). The problem is that, in the process, I'd play about 100 tournaments.
So do mini steps suck? Depends. If you can beat the $30 sit n gos for a respectable ROI, that's definitely more profitable per unit time. But the ministeps, for a good player, are a miniscule money investment, high time investment, profitable game.
That said, and stay the F*&% away from the ministep 1 tables, they're mine.
-Kings
Scuba Chuck
05-02-2005, 01:34 AM
EK, given your assessment, thought I'd try a ministep 1. Below is hand 1. Oh, and btw, these things are EZ.
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)
UTG (t800)
UTG+1 (t800)
UTG+2 (t800)
MP1 (t800)
MP2 (t800)
MP3 (t800)
CO (t800)
Hero (t800)
SB (t800)
BB (t800)
Preflop: Hero is Button with Q/images/graemlins/club.gif, Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls t15, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t30</font>, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t125</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, BB calls t110, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls t95.
Flop: (t400) J/images/graemlins/spade.gif, T/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets t675 (All-In)</font>, MP1 calls t675 (All-In), Hero calls t675 (All-In).
Turn: (t2425) 6/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players, 3 all-in)</font>
River: (t2425) T/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players, 3 all-in)</font>
Final Pot: t2425 /images/graemlins/grin.gif
Irieguy
05-02-2005, 01:38 AM
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I actually did some mathematical analysis of the mini steps and my estimated play (I've played a small chunk) and deemed them profitable, albeit time consuming.
-Kings
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You can't just say something like this without showing your analysis. Not on this forum, and certainly not in a math thread.
Irieguy
PS- I will not read your response if you post one for fear that you might actually show how you did your analysis for real.
The Yugoslavian
05-02-2005, 01:41 AM
Weak. You're such a fish.
Yugoslav
scott8
05-02-2005, 02:03 AM
+EV for those buying directly into step 5.
Apathy
05-02-2005, 02:08 AM
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+EV for those buying directly into step 5.
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Not if they lose on the first hand everytime /images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Scuba Chuck
05-02-2005, 02:25 AM
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Their best aspect is the risk/reward ratio, where I found that I'd pay for an average of 7 step 1 buy ins to earn one step 5 buy in (~1000% ROI).
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This might be +EV for hairplugs. Do you see why?
Phoenix1010
05-02-2005, 02:49 AM
Your avatar is cool.
johnnybeef
05-02-2005, 02:59 AM
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I played my way up to a step 5 mini today and then got 10th place on the first hand.
I don't like them.
Irieguy
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maybe one of these days you will actually make a worthwhile post around here, because the aforementioned isnt cutting it in my book... /images/graemlins/mad.gif
d1sterbd
05-02-2005, 03:50 PM
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+EV for those buying directly into step 5.
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I bought in to a mini-step 5 last night and got third... risked 430 dollars to net 70 dollars.
-d1sterbd
schwza
05-02-2005, 04:04 PM
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Their best aspect is the risk/reward ratio, where I found that I'd pay for an average of 7 step 1 buy ins to earn one step 5 buy in
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oh, sorry, i was buying spraying coffee all over my keyboard as i laughed.
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