What is a good winrate for satellites?

partygirluk · #1 01-09-2005, 01:11 PM

I played my first $39 satellite to the $215 on PS today. 1/6 qualify. I won! Anyway, what would be a good winrate in these? Should the winrate be the same if 6 people are in the tournament as if 150 are playing? What about for other satellites such as the $3 + rebuys?

Msogard · #2 03-21-2005, 07:39 PM

Upping this post instead of starting a new one...

I'm also curious how much money I could save by playing satellites for the Party nightly tournaments. Anyone?

housenuts · #3 03-21-2005, 07:41 PM

a good winrate i presume would be anything that allows you to get into the event for cheaper than the buy-in. this is providing you'd be willing to put up that buy-in anyways.

mts · #4 03-21-2005, 07:44 PM

39*6=234

i think the 3$r tournys are speed tournys? blinds increase every 5 minutes... ugh!

personally i think both are worthless but i'm sure some love them

Msogard · #5 03-21-2005, 07:44 PM

No, I wouldnt be willing to put that amount up. I want to know if it's possible to get in with maybe $50/night playing multiple satellites.

Jurollo · #6 03-21-2005, 08:03 PM

I love $11R, good stuff. No idea for winrate though.
~Justin

Simplistic · #7 03-21-2005, 08:05 PM

personally I wouldn't play in a satellite that offers less than 1 seat for every 10 people. theoretically your odds are the same those 3+r tourneys, if everyone re-buys 3 times you still need to be in the top 5% to cash.

M.B.E. · #8 03-22-2005, 11:09 PM

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I played my first $39 satellite to the $215 on PS today. 1/6 qualify. I won! Anyway, what would be a good winrate in these?

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Obviously you need an 18% win rate just to break even. I'd say anything over 30% is good, that gives you an average profit of $25.50. The very best players might be able to achieve a win rate in the range 35%-40%.

billyjex · #9 03-22-2005, 11:45 PM

I generally try to qualify for big Party tournies by the single table tournaments (I don't play MTT ones - waste of time.)

I wish I've kept records of the past 6 months playing these so I could give you a better answer, but I guess as long as you spend less on qualifiers than direct buy ins, that's a good winrate (but then you have to consider the time spent playing these when you could have been making money at ring games.)

I know that for a period I played these STT off and on and went over a month without winning one. I probably spent $500+ trying to win a $200 seat without winning one.

But this month I've won $1300 in seats with about $500 investment.