Best overlays on Stars low buy-ins? Advice please

[sethypooh21]

So, after about 18 mos off, I fired up the old PS, and noodled around playing some of the FPP quals to last week's $1050 Sunday mil. Being a luckbox, I won two seats (in one, coming back from down to T$~750 with blinds 200/400 on my BB and having to call ATC with 72o. I play very goot) neither of which I used. So now I have $2+k, and am somewhat bored already of my 'normal' low stakes 6-max LHE game, and am looking to work in more MTTs.

Basically, can anyone help me out by recommending which Stars tourneys have the best combo of overlay and ending in a reasonable amount of time (I'm pretty sure I have an overlay in a 2500 person $3.30, but 2500 people = past my bed time...)

[JohnFR]

hahahahah, no overlays on stars, the $3.3R's usually end up with over 30k in prize pool with garauntees of 10k and 20k

Cheers!
John

[Mi_T_Sharp]

OP, I'm pretty sure you think overlay means when the prize pool is greater than the guarantee. Overlay is basically the exact opposite. But, if that's your definition of overlay, then every Stars guarantee has one...lol.

[sethypooh21]

No, sorry, I didn't mean overlay in terms of add'l money, but rather in terms of bad players (assuming I'm better than average. Because if not, really doesn't matter, no?)

[registrar]

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No, sorry, I didn't mean overlay in terms of add'l money, but rather in terms of bad players (assuming I'm better than average. Because if not, really doesn't matter, no?)

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I've only played Bodog, Crypto, Prima, Mansion and Party and the standard on Stars is way higher. To give an example, a £20 ($40) on Crypto plays the same as a 4/180.

To answer the question, from a limited sample, the new $25/45s seem very soft.

[0evg0]

Playing $8 tourneys with a 2-3k roll would be retartartatered

[CybrPunk]

The best tournaments on Stars are the ones that have guaranteed prizepools. They have the softest fields and most amount of dead money. This is especially true in rebuy tournaments where many players fatten the pool by playing manically while others are dead money simply because they drop in the first hour. That being said, they are also the longest running tournaments on Stars. The $10k and $20k ($3 rebuys) can run about 10+ hours on average and the $5-10 rebuys can run anywhere from 7-10 hours.

If your goal is swift resolution then look toward the 180 and 360 player tournaments. Some of the mid buy-in non-guarantees can draw smaller fields at times but generally anything that's under $20 is going to attract a large enough field that the tournament will take at least 5 or more hours to complete. Even the 180s can run as many as 4+ hours in some (somewhat rare) cases.

[shaundeeb]

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Playing $8 tourneys with a 2-3k roll would be retartartatered

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WRONG.

[registrar]

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Playing $8 tourneys with a 2-3k roll would be retartartatered

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Should have read OP.

With that, I generally play things for which I'm underolled (like the $50r, warmup, million) until I've dropped a grand and then hit the 20/180s. I've operated on this roll for about 10 months now. I play Horse and PLO8 STTs to buff the roll, although I'm not actually very good at PLO8 so I should quit that.

I cash out and rapidly spend anything substantially over $2k but I should stop that really because playing 20/180s for roll is infinitely depressing. The 45s are also very +EV but I can rarely take it seriously.

So you can do that, a vicious circle of meaningless diversion followed by retail therapy. Or you can be really disciplined, play sats to the big events, manage your roll, play the 20/180s and big nightlies.

Stars offers you everything.

Which is why I spend so much time there despite the fact that it is way less profitable than any of the euro sites. [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Stars

[sethypooh21]

Sadly, can't play party any more (f you Bill Frist), and can't move money to other sites for a few more weeks at least.