[blankoblanco]

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they require large stretches of time commitment and results can often be heartbreaking.

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heartbreaking is right. tournaments mess with my mind so much when i go deep and something goes wrong. what kills me is the thought that if i just went a different way with a really marginal decision, i likely would've made a relatively life-changing amount of money. i've gone over certain things that happened in my head for days after the knockout blow.. can really affect me. i think it's hard to be immune to that, at least to some degree.

of course the flip side is that actually breaking through and winning an MTT is an incredible feeling, probably one of the biggest thrills poker has to offer. winning is of course the exception and arguably can't outweigh all the unsatisfying conclusions so, for someone like me, playing MTTs is probably a lot more -happiness EV than cash (but yet i still play them sometimes because i'm a sick person)

also, loldonkaments