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The NEW Weekly USA MTT Value | Overlay Report (5/30/14)

published by Anonymous on Fri, 05/30/2014 - 05:10

ProfRB.com breaks down the week's US-facing online poker tournaments that have overlays, offering MTT players an inside look at the best value events.

Online tournament players looking for an edge to give them more value will find ProfRB.com's Weekly MTT Value | Overlay Report full of useful information!

The report below factors all US-facing online poker room | network tournaments featuring guarantees of $5,000 or higher. This is generally the range we track on our MTT Overlay Reports, though we've added a few more MTT's on the Winning Poker Network in an effort to better reflect their overall schedule. In addition, we also track several MTT's below the $5,000 threshold on the Equity Poker Network and the Intertops Network since only a few tournaments on their current schedules (the $12,500 GTD Sunday major on Revolution and the $5,000/$10,000 GTD Sunday offerings on EPN) eclipse this mark.

In this week's report, overlays were up thanks largely to the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Bovada and Ignition Casino led the way with an abnormally high 37 overlays, while the Winning Poker Network and America's Card Room actually saw reduced overlays but still remain on the high side overall. The Carbon Poker Gaming Network featured only two overlays this week - but one was a large $13,000 overlay in their signature event, while the Equity Poker Network saw the dollar value of their overlays nearly double. Revolution had slight reductions in their overlay count, and we also feature Sunday offerings on Seals With Clubs with the Bitcoin-only poker room seeing two overlays this past weekend.

Bucking the holiday trend of more overlays was the Winning Poker Network, which saw a slight reduction in overlay totals this past week. Their figures remain high, however, considering their Monday through Friday tournament schedule features three MTT's with guarantees of $5,000 and higher while their weekend schedule offers eight such events. There's a lot of red in the graphic above, meaning players can expect opportunities for added value to continue heading into the summer weeks. WPN has announced that the High Five MTT series will be back in June, however, which should help player traffic on the whole. How long they sustain the 'bounce' afterwards will go a long way to determining how successful their summer may be on the tournament poker side of the ledger.

Other MTT's of note: As highlighted in our Winning Poker Network Overlays and Tournament Results page, WPN offers a weekly $50,000 GTD on Sundays (bumped to $100,000 once a month) and a daily $5,000 GTD, which now runs at 8pm EST Monday through Friday, and at 2pm EST on Saturday and Sunday.

One has to look at the previous week on the Bovada tournament schedule and wonder how the number one online poker room for US players managed to serve up 37 overlays over a seven-day period. Holidays generally cause a little havoc, as was clearly evident in weekend play. However, Bovada's overall schedule is massive. With so many $5,000 guaranteed and higher events, the trend over the past number of weeks has been for overlays to pop up with slightly more frequency as time goes on. This leads one to believe that it will be quite the interesting summer at Bovada in terms of tournaments. With such a stout schedule and the potential for added value from overlays, it could be a perfect storm of circumstance for players. As reported in >our latest Monthly Profit | Loss report, Bovada crushes the US competition in revenues earned from their MTT schedule. So why not toss in a little added value in for good measure?

Other MTT's of note: As highlighted in our Bovada Overlays and Tournament Results page, Bovada offers up all kinds of options for every type of tournament player. While not quite at the level of pre-Black Friday offerings for US players, Bovada does offer a $100,000 Sunday MTT that frequently reaches over $150,000 in prize money and is far and away the largest regularly scheduled multi-table tournament available to players from the USA in terms of player field. Pick your poison here, MTT grinders - there's something for everyone.

Only two overlays managed to squeak into Merge's tournament schedule this past week. The big one - the $13,000 overlay seen above - took place in their $125,000 guaranteed Big Ticket event. Other than that, it was business as usual for a network running smoothly after reintegration and a highly successful Carbon OPS tournament series. Merge recently hinted at increased guarantees over the coming weekend, and already a few MTT's on the daily schedule have been raised. Look for overlays to continue to be rare here, even as the summer 'slow season' begins to rear its ugly form in the weeks and months ahead.

Other MTT's of note: As highlighted in our Merge Network Overlays and Tournament Results page, Merge offers several Sunday offerings for players looking for potential added value. The $12.5k GTD for $33 and $10k GTD for $11 at 4pm EST, along with the $15k GTD $109 at 7pm EST, give players of wide ranging ability ample opportunity for a solid score.

Equity Poker Network has made some increases in stated guarantees across their daily MTT schedule over the past month. And in doing so, overlays continue to be high in presence as more traffic begins to flow towards EPN-partner rooms Pokerhost and Full Flush Poker. This is quite a solid time to pick up some additional value - particularly in weekend events such as the $3,000 GTD on Saturdays or the bumped up $2,000 GTD event that runs daily. All of the tournaments tracked also offer re-entry and add-on ability within 60-70 minutes of start time. This lends itself to smaller player fields, and as EPN continues to grow and make MTT adjustments, we feel the value is well worth the investment.

Other MTT's of note: As highlighted in our Equity Poker Network Overlays and Tournament Results page, Equity now runs a $10,000 GTD event each and every Sunday and will be debuting a $25,000 GTD event this Sunday, June 1st.

The leading Bitcoin-only online poker site continues to showcase its signature event, which has overlaid in all four occurrences in May to the tune of 7,800 SWC chips in total. We're only including Sunday events for the time being - but the one staple that has emerged as a dependable spot for added value is the aforementioned 20,000-chip guaranteed event for 475+25 SWC chips. You can only deposit and withdraw with Bitcoins, the increasingly popular crypto-currency. But all play on SWC is straight up poker. Players buy in with SWC chips (1 chip equals 0.001 Bitcoins, no matter the fluctuations in value of Bitcoins) and win SWC chips, so all figures in the above graphic are obviously labeled as such. If you're into Bitcoins and love a wild west feel to the game, then SWC is by far the best option available.

Other MTT's of note: As highlighted in our Seals With Clubs Overlays and Tournament Results page, Seals also runs 1,000 and 1,500-chip GTD events on Sundays that have yet to overlay since expanded tracking began in early May.

The MTT schedule on the Revolution Network (we recommend Intertops and Juicy Stakes for US players looking for safe, secure Revolution poker rooms) leaves a bit to be desired. With only a small amount of tournaments nearing $1,000 GTD or better, you are hard pressed to find overlays of substantive value on a mass scale. However, the Sunday major event (now a $12,500 GTD tournament) has historically shown to be a destination for added value. With player fields generally in the 90-120 range and a tendency to overlay in streaks (the field dipped to 94 players this past Sunday), it's still a recommended stop on your Sunday grind. Monday through Saturday, however, the appeal for grinders would be the lower player fields in relation to the lower guarantees. There's still money to be made, obviously, which should satisfy the pallets of any type of tournament player.

Other MTT's of note: As highlighted in our Revolution Network Overlays and Tournament Results page, several deep-stacked turbo MTT's run daily with guarantees of $500, $850, and $1,000. Rebuy tournaments with $1,000 guaranteed also run, usually at least once daily.

We hope you've enjoyed and found useful this in-depth analysis of the current US-facing MTT landscape as it relates to overlays. If you'd like to give us some feedback, be sure to check us out on the web (links below) or click here and contact us via Skype or email.

by ProfRB Editor

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