Hey everybody. I am playing a lot of MTT: freerolls, low buy ins, and sometimes bigger tournaments on weekend. But I am not so often in the money. Is it normal or do I something wrong ? How often are you in the money ?

my problem is that im often in the money, but bust out not long after the bubble haha

I've read 10-20% is good. Some of the very good MTT Pro grinders I follow are at 13% and 14% (has over $4M in trny wins).

rarely in big tournaments, and in smaller tournaments more often meaning better playing smaller tournaments and here I refer to online when playing live is much better ie 3 of 4 tournaments are money

every week im in itm , but live mtts only =)

I'm not that often in the money too.
ANd when itm I almost immediately bust after the bubble.

MTT's are hard to gauge based on the buy in. I am in the money around like 3 out of every 10 tourneys I play if they are micro's but the freerolls are a little more difficult because of the bingo style of play early on and the blinds.

10% is enough for a successful game. But it is important to not just get the money and go to the tournament as far as possible. Play should be at the same level of rates. Play at higher rates is necessary only for the money won. And of course for a successful game should be a lot of time to devote to training.

not nearly enough. but honestly i play more for fun than for profit

1 of 4 or 1 of 5, sometimes 1 of 3, but i play only low buy in tournaments

Hello. I rarely walk into the prizes at tournaments won more than once

Normally 65% of the time I get ITEM the money, but the bad and we play hours to arrive at ITM and when we arrived and with a good stack, we lost a lot of plug with good hands taking "Bad Beat" and thus not managing to get the better odds and FT "final table" where oh yes is the best prize pot of the tournament.

It easier to get itm than final table.

Originally Posted by kaetzchenfg

Hey everybody. I am playing a lot of MTT: freerolls, low buy ins, and sometimes bigger tournaments on weekend. But I am not so often in the money. Is it normal or do I something wrong ? How often are you in the money ?

A similar situation

～15% ITM for me.
no hyper game. just play regular one
no multi games. actually that makes u get ITM much more

juz my POV

well played in the 2000 euro on ladbrooks last night 10 euro freeze torny . came 1st for 450 euro but what a long torny and ended up paying 36 plaYERS SO THE 1ST PRIZE was set at 25%. I think us in euro got a lot off options and all games get well supported

On average, in mtts you should be itm 5-25% and if you go deep into the tournament and to the final table or even top 3 then you should be making some good profit.

For mtsng's i'm itm 45%, (mirco buyin)

Across all 5 poker sites I have an average of 20.2% ITM

Unfortunately I'm playing just freerolls at this time and trying to build a bankroll from zero. I'm playing for 3 weeks and I already won some cents. But if you are a beginner (and have bankroll for it) I recommend to you play only SNG at this moment, cause the paid players in percentage are bigger and you have more chances to get in the bubble and build a solid bankroll.

This is quite relative, varies greatly with the type of tournament you are playing and the way you are playing.

I normally get in Itm on every 4th tourney. Like yesterday I got 18th place after beating 11000 players in 888poker 3000 go for gold tourney. And in the same torney while playing day before yesterday my Three of a kind K was murdered by a Flush and I got out early from the tourney.
The most important thing about these tourneys are. They are quite long in nature say 4-5 hours. They involve huge frenziness due to free in nature and shows great varience. But they offer great Fun as well.

10%-15% of playing tournament are pretty good.
If in your calendar you have big MTTs number, this 10% could be enough great money.

Enough to be profitable.

Originally Posted by ohshootmybad

Enough to be profitable.

+1

I usually get beat just b4 the FT... and usually with a bad beat

Originally Posted by joe777

It easier to get itm than final table.

no shit.
But I find it actually more easy to reach the FT from itm, than getting itm (ofc only when having an average stack itm).
If you play tight after the bubble, you can easily get 2-3 pay-out levels higher without doing anything.

you don't get in the money enough in MTTs where it can effect your mentality but variance can be a pain. You will get your chance to make it to the top (as long as you don't mess up constantly)

At the moment I'm only playing the various freerolls on 888, and almost exclusively on the weekends, and looking over my stats I've been making it into the money about 2 out of 3 times since I've been keeping track starting April 13.
It sounds high, but these freerolls are mostly paying out better that 33% of the players registered.
For example I played 2 games this morning (I went 2/2) and they paid out 4500 out of 11442 and 1099 out of 3814.
My whole style of play is to make it ITM and then take it from there. In these you can usually make it just by merely doubling up (or even less. the 2nd game I'm sure some of the sitters who never played a hand made it ITM), and that is incredibly easy given how most people play them. I have no qualms about open shoving AA or KK since I get called at least 90% of the time (half the time by multiple players).

Of the 10 tournaments I have about one for the money, but it is not my wish, I would like more. Now I play on 888poker and PS, but the competition is strong

Playing 50 cent MTTs I make money on probably 1/4 regularly, though I'm on a killer downswing and have lost the last 10 so always keep heavy variance in mind.

one time while playing on 888 ,three times I was in prize,most I earn money on 888 cardshat tournamnets....

At this point I almost stopped playing MTT moved to cache, but used to play a lot of tournaments and I can't say that often got and prizes(

Well on freerols you can't expect to be often in money...i am about 10% of times, but i play agressive, so if i make it i am often in last 7-8% off tournament, i think that is more important to make good money if you are in it then make a lot off ITM for small profits

dont really like the in the money stat, think roi is better, and even better is $/hr

Originally Posted by kaetzchenfg

Hey everybody. I am playing a lot of MTT: freerolls, low buy ins, and sometimes bigger tournaments on weekend. But I am not so often in the money. Is it normal or do I something wrong ? How often are you in the money ?

many times . last week only i have finished first thrice . But all were smaller tournament .And could win only 70$ in whole.

Originally Posted by TeUnit

dont really like the in the money stat, think roi is better

You have a point-
MTT
ITM = 5.26%
ROI = 216.77%

as opposed to
STT
ITM = 44.58%
ROI = 23.50%

All figures since Jan 2015