how long did it take to get your first win?
 

I'm either gonna feel better that there are fellow sufferers out there who haven't won after playing a while or get very depressed. I've been playing tourneys for about a year now, playing on average 4-5 a week. I've had a third, and about 5 final tables as well as a third in a live 100 player tourney. How long had you been playing when you got your first 500+ player win?

Re: how long did it take to get your first win?
 

1st win was a 20/180 when those were the only 180s PS offered...maybe a year or so ago.

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I've never won a 500+ player event. I won the second MTT I played.
It's pretty hard to win big field events. Thinking about it now, it might actually be the case that I've never FT-ed a 500+ player event. My biggest cash came from making the penultimate table of a 800 player event with a huge overlay and a very flat payout structure. Other than that, the biggest field I've beaten outright was probably 240 or so.

I would advise playing smaller fields.

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I'm either gonna feel better that there are fellow sufferers out there who haven't won after playing a while or get very depressed. I've been playing tourneys for about a year now, playing on average 4-5 a week. I've had a third, and about 5 final tables as well as a third in a live 100 player tourney. How long had you been playing when you got your first 500+ player win?

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How many MTTs have you done in that time period? That's rather more relevant than saying 'a year'.

Probably took me around a year to get the first 500+ win.

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I've won only one +500 player tourney, and that was more than a year ago. Guess it took 1½ years of playing before that occurred. The amount of luck you need to cruise through and win a large tournament full of donkeys, is ridiculuos.

I know, it sometimes feels depressing when you see the same players start sweat threads night after night. But remember three things.

1. They're very good tournament players.
2. Most frequent sweat threads come from large buy-in tournaments with ~300, or less, entrants.
3. Those who frequently start sweat threads play loads and loads of tournaments every single day.

Re: how long did it take to get your first win?
 

well I did say average of 4-5 a week so around 250...ugh . I think I must take the advice to drop to smaller fields. I mostly play the stars 55k $10 rebuy and FT 25k $26 which are huge, 1500+ players

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well I did say average of 4-5 a week so around 250...ugh . I think I must take the advice to drop to smaller fields. I mostly play the stars 55k $10 rebuy and FT 25k $26 which are huge, 1500+ players

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Right, missed that part.

Seriously, practice some field selection and play some 200-500 man fields. Playing gigantic fields all the time is, to put it crassly, a bit moronic. Try some smaller sites. You'd be amazed at the low level of the competition even at the $50-$100 buy-ins.

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Try some of the PS 180 SNGs. Perfect for you IMO.

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i started playing poker about a year ago and just won my first MTT (10$/836 entrants). i played approximately 150 tourneys of 500+ entrants, but i was a complete newbie for the first ~100, playing weak-tight going for ITM (interestingly succeeding very often).

I recommend to play as many SNGs as you can to get used to lategame play, which is the key difference between a 15th and a 1st place finish. And then don´t adjust weak-tightish when playing the 5th hour of a MTT. If it is correct to push Q4s into a bigger stack, it is still - and especially - true when you got deep in a large MTT.

(sorry for sounding like an excited noob, which i am)

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My first live tourney ever and maybe my 5th mtt tourney I got 3rd in Arizona in a $150 buy in with around 150 players. I got to final table and folded my way to 3rd. Being the I was from Canada they took $500 out of my $1850 pay day. Then they wanted a tip for dealers. I told them the US gov't just took their tip and I haven't played a live tourney in the states again as it is not profitable to anyone outsite the US because of the taxes. You win in Canada, you keep it all, no questions asked. Just another reason why Canada is 100 times better than the US of A!