Evaluating Tournament Play

beanie42

I've seen lots of posts about how many BB/100 you win, but I'm primarily a tournament player. As a friend just reminded me "you can't win them all", but how do you evaluate tournament performance? I've thought of a number of different ways, such as:

- pure winnings (winnings less buy-in)
- winnings per buy-in ($100 for $10 buy-in = 1000%, better than $200 for $50 which is 400%)
- how deep into field you finish (3 of 8 same as 9 of 24)

I'm sure there are other ways I haven't thought of, but I'm wondering what others use, and what pros/cons there might be with the above methods. Also, depending on how you evaluate, what is considered "good" (similar to 2 BB/100 or higher) for tournaments. If it matters, I primarily play 1-5 table tournies with low buy-ins ($10 - $75).

GTA Poker

Hourly rate.

SirWatts

I look at ROI (ie #2) but certainly you should certainly keep hourly rate in mind as well.

beanie42

SirWatts wrote:

I look at ROI (ie #2) but certainly you should certainly keep hourly rate in mind as well.

Ok, but what would be considered average, good, etc. for hourly rate or ROI?

SirWatts

I'm not sure... For hourly rate it depends what your goals are I guess. Playing small buy-in live tournaents i wouldn't expect much of an hourly rate since play and there's not much money involved (also only 1 table at a time!) so ROI might be better to look at in your case. 25% is good for small buy-in 1 table SnGs so for small live multitable tournaments i would guess anywhere from 30-50% would be pretty good, especially for a newer player those seems like pretty decent numbers to me, but i could be off. Lack of rake in some home games would help slightly also now that i think of it.