% Finishing in the Money

[VictorHugo]

I noticed that the poker tracker version for tournaments has a column named

% Finished in the Money ...

One average what percentage of the time is a good player making the money on typical mutli table tournaments?

ie.) a good player makes 2-3 bb an hour but in terms of tournaments ...

ITM% is irrelevant, but I think something like 15% is pretty good long term (?)

[ansky451]

There are people with less than 10% ITM who are substantial winners, and there are players with over 20% who are losers. ITM is an ok statistic, but it really won't give you a sense of their earnings. Most good players tend to have around 15% ITM. I'm a donkey so mine is about 12-13%.

[reecelights]

I need bubble work:

23% ITM
-2% ROI

[reecelights]

NEVER MIND!

Just won my first big (2nd in a week) Multi. Stars $5/.50

23.5% ITM
55.22% ROI (the previous was actually -5.59%)

[rsigley]

i entered one tourney, $31 investment $4800 for first


154% ROI!! =)

actually, its 15483% ROI... probably not sustainable...

i don't totally understand though, aren't many tournaments different with respect to prize structures??

or the more i think about it, is it usually 10% win prizes? so that's what you'd benchmark your 15% ITM against?? in which case, most of us should be quite a bit better as there are some seriously bad players in tournaments. like calling all-in with A3o (huh????)

[elmitchbo]

calling an allin with A3o isn't always a bad thing.

ROI is more important than ITM. it's far better to get one first place than alot of barely in the money finishes.

[ansky451]

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or the more i think about it, is it usually 10% win prizes? so that's what you'd benchmark your 15% ITM against?? in which case, most of us should be quite a bit better as there are some seriously bad players in tournaments. like calling all-in with A3o (huh????)


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So how high a ITM % do you think you should have?