I also try to put in a ton of volume (500+ tourneys a month) to reduce variance. And I love to mix in these deepstack tournaments every once in a while. It's been paying off lately, but even I'd make only $8/h I'd still enjoy them for the sake of play. I wonder if I should start a challange thread, where I'll always post when I play this, just for fun.

Don't worry about my soul, it's been crushed again and again, for 2014 I feel it's been reinforced to crush poker, not the other way round.

Another interesting thing about these super-deep tourneys is that you have to go all-in on the flop or turn or even pre so much more rarely, reducing variance extremely. Sure, loosing at the FT to a 1 to 3 outer is tougher than in an other tourney, but not by that much.

Oh and I know the deepstack tourneys on carbon, with 15 min blind levels and 5000c starting chips, they are fantastic, too. I currently don't have a roll there, but will be transfering some time in the future again.

Btw: No offense taken whatsoever, thanks for the detailed postings. And wait for my 800%+ ROI Deepstack challange thread! [I know this is the opposite of what you intended, but I am just too much of a "challange-accepted!" kinda guy]

That said, you can apply the same analysis in all tournaments/games and guess where you stand based on that new information. You should be looking at any game you may choose to play and make sure you truly believe you have a positive expectation (in investing/math terms, not like "I expect to cash or I'll be mad"), and then you should really make sure your assessment is true to reality, that is it accounts for everything. 

If your preferred game is deep stack post-flop poker, then I think maybe take a look at the final tables of the 15 minute tournaments. Check out the stacks. They're probably pretty comparable to the final table of the 30 miunte level tournament structure.15 minutes is actually on the better, longer end, for online tournaments, and in the US it's the best you see on a daily level. There are a couple of Sunday games I can think of that have 20 minute levels. I would definitely not consider the tournaments in the US to be worse than those in the rest of the world. We get short changed due to our circumstances, but there is nothing shallow about 15 minute levels. Unless the structure is skipping levels, take a look at the 15 minute games. Those games really are deep stacked and won't have only half avg stack final table to final table because the time of levels is only half. I didn't realize it was 30 minute levels and frankly, I really really really suggest playing something else if at ALL possible. That tournament structure/time is absolutely amazing, yes, but you're going to kill your soul all those times you run deep and cash for nothing, and worse than that youll want to kill yourself after a downswing (say 500-1000 of those games only, under the assumption you only played that x 16 every single day) when you then get it in good at the final two tables and lose a 3 outer or 2 outer. That kind of thing hurts more the more time invested. I don't think there's a way around it. The more time invested, the more of an impact a beat has on you. I'm pretty sure anyone saying otherwise would be lying to us and themselves. It's natural and will bother you more because you're only playing this tournament for a large part of your session. If this was part of a 10-40 game session that somehow lasts you all day anyway, then I'd consider having it just to keep you focused during the beginning of the later part of your session, but really that's sooooo long to be playing.

On pokerstars.fr there is a 30€ (~$40) Deepstack tourney with massive starting stacks but 15 minute blind level (opposed to the 30 min on stars.eu). If my roll increases I'll transfere funds to there and try to play this one every sunday as it won't take as long and have a much greater prizepool.

The fact that playing for 14h - especially on a computer and not in a live situation - isn't the most healthy thing to do, is what bothers me the most.

Shipped it.

great Job!

Funny thing is I was 3/18 the day before I took this down in the same toruney and donked off my stack to an aggro-fish who represented the flush which he actually had, vs poket queens. As I said extreme ROI in these, unfortunally playing 14h is just a little too long to try this more than 2 times a week. If there was a $22 Deepstack with an $10k Gtd pool this would be awesome.

My last hand was fun, I had gained a slightly chip-lead and was dealt QQ.

He minraised the button, I reraised 2.5x. He just called. Flop came A57. He checked, I checked (pot control vs the aggro fish; if he had the ace he would surely reraise if I bet, but he was capable of doing so with a seven, so I wanted to get to showdown cheaply). Turn was Q. Gin! Well, almost. Since I had checked the flop, the aggro-fish donk-bet 2/3 pot. I was pretty sure we are good with our set of queens and reraised to 2.5x again - just in case he had the A with no club kicker and to get max fish-value. He took 40 seconds of his timebank and reshipped his whole stack (about 2x pot at that time). I took a few seconds and called, hoping he was tilting with an Ace-noclub hand, that he had done before, or at best drawing to the nutflush. With the made flush I am sure he had snap-shoved.

Well, he showed J5. GG. Little skill, but a lot of hearts. 😀

He plays aggro but often stupid. Good for me, I guess.

Stacks are now almost even. 🙂 M ~39 for both.

The serbian guy barely speaks english. He's pretty aggro, strange plays, this isn't gonna be easy. Doesn't want to give some of the dealmoney to me, so I'll try and crush him.

Anyways my tourney M is 30 and his 66, so gl me!