How Much Can You Win?

[Iceman]

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I was wondering how much a very good player can win per tournament on average playing $100 single table tournament.


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Three factors to consider: (1) the strength of your opposition, (2) the structure (how deep the money is and how quickly the blinds increase), and (3) what game (limit or nl, holdem or stud or omaha).

Against terrible opponents, in an NL holdem single-table tournament, in a structure where the blinds don't increase too rapidly, you can have an expected profit as high as the buy-in.

Against opponents who basically know what they're doing; with some very good players in the field, if the structure makes the blinds excessive very quickly, or if the tournament is limit rather than NL, an expert's expected profit is significantly lower - probably about half the buy-in would be the upper limit in any of those cases. With the Stars structure, the best players could probably do a bit better than half the buy-in in NL against mediocre opponents.