Variance: How do people win MTTs?

[Stake Monster]

Cuz whenever I somehow have the stupid idea to play one, I run like crap and I see the donks playing K4o in re-raised pots winning every hand.

Do I need some sort of shaman voodoo artifact of Luck +5 or should I just play every hand?

[PJo336]

they dont, idk where you heard otherwise

[Stake Monster]

I play on a non-US network. That means they do play every hand, and they do win, because most of them do it. (On an average 9-man table the vpip average is usually over 40 with 5-6 of them playing 70+)

[PJo336]

nope, no one wins, check ur stats again

[obiedman]

they luckbox every hand. this is standard in all mtts on all sites, as well as live.

[Jamsym]

Get coaching off Chad Batista

[Dan87]

I can't understand this either. I won my first ever live donkament and i didnt know what i was doing. It was a 60 person tournament, and looking back all I did was luckbox the [censored] out of the tourney. Flopped a set against aces and stacked him, got KK vs QQ and stacked someone, went allin with A7 and final table and stacked pocket jacks.

Even online I just won every race and got dealt AA like 4 times to take down a 300 person tourney. Blah blah there is skill w/e, Id argue that the people who look the most skilled and win are the ones who get into situations to make them look like they play good.

[Craggoo]

Srsly, the only people that win MTT's are either huge luckboxes or huge cardracks. End of story.

[rakemeplz]

Yup they are all luckboxes. Don't drink the lemonade in the MTT forums.

[sharkscopeaholic]

But over the course of 1000's of mtt's everyone has the same amount of luck and you'll easily be able to tell who the better players are.