The MTT golden ratio

As it turns out, the sit and go dream ratio is actually the MTT golden ratio. Making the money half of the time in sit and gos is essentially a dream, but doing it in MTTs is actually achievable. I've now played 42 MTTs, and have made the money in 20 of them. Of those 42, 39 were MTT 8-games, in 19 of which I made the money. The whole point of golden ratios is that they should be achievable. The wonderful thing about MTTs is that a lot of bad players play in them. One of the dirty secrets of poker is that good players do well mainly because there are so many bad players who are willing to play against them :-)

buy_in entry_fee num_players num_hands place winnings

  4500       500           6       132     7    14170

delta: $9,170
MTT 8-game balance: $131,900
balance: $9,392,040