average starting stack at PPM semifinals?

[2ndGoat]

Poor me, I won a PPM III qualifier tonight. Now I have to play 800 more raked hands before the semifinals if I want to have a full stack.

What percentage of the semi-final entrants are going to show up with 2000 extra chips? Do any show up with almost none? Just wondering what to expect.

2ndGoat

[Smackdab]

Largest percentage will have the extra 2,000. Not having them really puts you at a disadvantage. Play the micr-limits as a raked hand is a raked hand no matter the limit.

GL

[MS Sunshine]

An average stack is always right around 2500 at the start.

MS Sunshine

[RollaJ]

so u need 2000 raked hands right? I too just won one this morning and I checked my acct and see i have 900 extra chips already, so it seems i need 1100 more hands/chips??
I was thinking maybe $5 tourneys, but the rake is so high on Party /forums/images/icons/frown.gif

[2ndGoat]

you'll get there quicker in the ring than in tournament play. Play there for the chips unless you can't afford it.
if you win 20% of the tournaments, (a fabulous number) you'll be getting about 20 chips per tournament, which takes something like a half hour to 45 minutes to play out (averaging less if you play no limit since your 9th place finishes will take much less time). In the best case, you're getting around 30 extra chips per hour, probably a good bit less. At 1/2, you can get that pretty easy, I think. The number is probably closer to 40.

Thanks for the info on stack sizes everyone.

[2ndGoat]

just to clarify, you don't get an extra chip per hand in tournament play, you get 100 chips for every sing table tournament you win, none for 2nd-10th. I believe ring games are where the money's at for online poker sites, they'd rather you played there.

[RollaJ]

Ya, Im sticking with the NL cash games and punishing all these suckers /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

[Inthacup]

I'd say 6-7 people per table have 3000 chips. I can honestly say that without the full 3000, I wouldn't have won my first seat last year. At one point at 50-100 I was down to T-700. I doubled up 3 times in the next orbit, and cruised from there.

[2ndGoat]

Are the semi-finals no-limit? I got the impression it would be limit hold'em, but if you doubled up three times in one 50/100 orbit (700->5600 in one round? nice!), I guess I was wrong.

2ndGoat

[Inthacup]

Here's how it went: I lost a big pot and was at 700. I pick up KK and hit my set on the turn, to take a huge pot. I then was moved to another table. The limits increased and we played 100-200. I had around 1800 in chips I think. I went all in with that with a strait vs. a set. This put me to about 3600. I didn't go all in with this hand, but it was still a big pot. After that I was well over 5k.

[RollaJ]

Inthacup, u made the cruise last year?

[MS Sunshine]

Oh PleaZZZZe, no more happy inthecup PPM stories.

MS Sunshine

[GrannyMae]

Oh PleaZZZZe, no more happy inthecup PPM stories.

be nice snowshovel..

i actually thought cup was very modest and humble, and i was hoping for more of a trip report.

sheesh, the snow starts melting and now you get all pissy. you ski people are grumpy come springtime.

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[RollaJ]

sheesh, the snow starts melting and now you get all pissy. you ski people are grumpy come springtime
ROFL Granny

Sorry Ms, didnt mean to open any old wounds /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif