pokerstars 30,000 player tourney

Is it really worth play in the sunday 250,000 tournament when there is 30,000 players playing.I mean whats the odds on winning.Is it better to stay on the 5,000.00 tournaments with 2,000 players etc.

Whats the buyin for that? if its cheap sure, well if itts mid ranged too it would be worth it, well i like the idea high staked too lol. if you can make it through, play the right cards at the right time, you can make a load of $$$ no matter what the buyin

buy in 10.00-fee 1.00.maybe ill try for the 250,000 30,000players

Would you spend $11 on the lottery in order to win $24,000? Most people wouldn't, so why do it for that tournament? Cause that's basically what is it. I suppose if you could satellite into it for FPPs or $2.20 it wouldn't be bad idea.

think Im gonna try to make secondary income playing at pokerstars.Im gonna do this by playing sit and gos.Many say you may lose your whole bankroll at ring games with AA and lose on the flop with a guy who has 1010 and hits the other ten on the flop.sit and gos its only a buy in and thats all you lose.does anyone agree with this and also are there many out there at pokerstars making a living playing as a us citizen.

think Im gonna try to make secondary income playing at pokerstars.Im gonna do this by playing sit and gos.Many say you may lose your whole bankroll at ring games with AA and lose on the flop with a guy who has 1010 and hits the other ten on the flop.sit and gos its only a buy in and thats all you lose.does anyone agree with this and also are there many out there at pokerstars making a living playing as a us citizen.

I do not believe it is worth playing that. Your odds are extremely slim of winning that, if you do well, that will be a very nice prize. You will have to avoid tooo many bad beats, tons of rivers and play the best game of your life. The odds are definately against you.

Anything less than a $20 buy-in are higher gamble situations. From $20-50 buy-ins the fields are necessarily thinned. With the exception of the Sun Mil, at $215 (lots of folks satty in much cheaper) games over $50 create decent fields with decent players.

I always have sattied into the (now) $250K. One of these days the pokerstars will align...

yes because they buy in is just 11 dollard and the first price is really worth play, so if you have a good br try one of those tournaments... also why do you wanna win? i mean the odds of win are just 1 in 30.000 however if you finishd top 100 there are really good prices for such a small buy in...

No offense, but since when are we comparing poker to the lottery?

It's a game of skill, no?

Although, you do need some luck to go deep into this kind of tournament,
all you can do is play your best game and hope things go your way.

Playing huge tourneys like that is comparable to playing the lottery or bingo. Even Ivey et al need some luck. Even if you only ever get them in with the best hand if the poker gods are against you and the donks are hot you're gonna struggle.
No-one is suggesting poker isn't a game of skill, but you do need some luck too. Especially to wade through a field of 30000.
That wouldn't stop me playing it though. Someone has to win it, why not me or you?

You need luck to win it, but it's not hard to cash consistently for a good player.

I can find a better game for $11 than that one I played it one time but was not impress to big of field. more that skill is needed there.

Not even close to comparing it to lottery....As someone said earlier some amount of skill involved....but even more, there is no lottery that only carries odds of 30,000 to 1 (thats prolly the odds of winning a $3 prize ). All the lotteries are fantastic odds even when compared to the true odds of winning since the state/etc takes so much to pay for education (or whatever)

Even if the true odds in a lottery are 10 Million to 1, the real odds are 20 Million to 1 because the state takes 50% for itself (then taxes baby!!!)

Another thing to consider...so many donks qualify and play in this--and then so many others donk early trying to build a huge stack, that you end up playing in essence a MUCH smaller field. So I think this is a good one to play.

I have been playing the $22 MTT for $250K on Sundays at FTP and like it also

You'd be surprised (well, maybe not) at how fast people drop out of those huge MTT's and how terrible the play is. I've only played in one, the world record one that Stars had in December and I won around $700 for an $11 entry fee.

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There are a ton of cheap ways to get into this tournament, which is what provides the enormous field. If you play in it, you really should satellite in, imo.

skill, skill and more skill that's what it all about.

You're going to make more money playing ring games... theres too much variance in SnG's and MTTs to be comfortable making money. RIng Games would be the way to go for bankroll building. I've been busted out of tournaments with AA more times than I have lost with AA in RIng Games. It's a mental characteristic. In a SnG all you lose is your BI. in a ring game your bankroll is at stake generally most players take it a little more seriously.