$10 bankroll

What should i play with a $6-$10 bankroll on pokerstars

Try those 25 cents SNG (180 man) Really good if you can those. Need a lil bit more to play higher tourny. Good luvk

i would play the 10 cent ones until you have around $15 then play some of the 25 cent ones.

There are $0.25 45 & 90 player tourneys, but I've been hesitant to try them because the percentage of players that are paid (i.e, 7/45 & 12/90) seems so much smaller compared to the $1 ones (single table) where 33% get paid.

So, if you're a decent Sit and Go player, I'd try the $1 ones, even though I know you need a much bigger bankroll (around $50) to ride out the variances.

id take the $10 and take a shot at a $10 SnG..or 2 $5 SnG or Tournaments...see if you can make a decent cash to get a bigger BR....anything under $100 is tough to follow any sort of proper BRM so id suggest taking some shots with your $10

If not the tourneys, then the 0.01/0.02 tables with a small amount so you're never at a giant risk of blowing it all. I started with a $15 freeroll win on full tilt, and played the micro tables to build up my stack to about $70 now (and counting). Play tight, and you should be alright!

I agree with Patty and say you should take a shot with the $10. It is worthless to spend 8 months grinding $10 to $50 when you could take one shot with it in a SNG.

Yeh personally i would advise not to take shots at tournaments, too high variance and the 10C/25C tourneys are total luck fests anyway. If i was you id take your $10 and sit at 3-5 0.01/0.02 tables a day with $1-$2 on each table, play a nice 1hr-2hr session, youll be surprised at the profit after a few days...Good luck with your bankroll

Also, PattyR's advise is terrible imo, dont blow your whole roll on 1-2 tourneys, its high risk, and the profit isnt that great if your gonna play HU tourneys. Id say work your way up to $30 before you play any type of tournament....GL

are you serious?? how the f%k is this terrible advice??? i told him he should take a shot with it..you cant follow any proper BRM with $10...why would u sit at 3-5 tables when most beginners cant even focus on more than 1??.....i think your advice is shit imo...unless you wanna spend 1 yr growin your $10 to $20

It does not take a year to get $10 to $20 at .01/.02 tables. I started with $20 in July and played 2nl and now I have $180 and about to move onto 10nl when I get to $200. If he takes his shot and loses then he has nothing. If he is willing to just deposit then he should be putting a bit more in, but if this means back to freerolls then the best option is indeed the 2nl tables. It isn't fast but in a couple months you can have a nice roll going and you'll have learned a lot. Taking shots early just teaches you bad management of funds, something that is hard to get rid of.

Play at the low stake tables for a little while longer. Once you have more exposure and feel like you know the odds a little better advance slowly to the larger stake tables. Remember it can be easy come easy go at any stake.

it was an exaggeration that it takes a year mr. wall. i know other ppl on here with a larger roll than 180 that grew it up quickly. but the OP asked for opinions on what he should do...with 6 - 10 i figured give it a shot...if not..than redeposit with $50 or more...if your trying to preserve the 6 - 10 as long as you possibly can before going broke than i agree he should take to your methods..

i dont think taking shots when ur BR is below $50 is a bad idea....u cant even take BRM into consideration with a roll less than this...so all in all its your opinion....but its definately not bad BRM to take shots when ur roll is less than $50..hell less than $100....because BRM does NOT apply

definately sit at 2c/4c nl table and play tight , play at least 1-2 hrs a day max and grind till you have $50 then move on to 25c sng 6 or 9 player,once your comfortable and cashing in regularly move to the $1

Be conservative!!! I agree on the 2/4c tables but id go with limit to start, so you can get a feel. I believe minimum buy-in on pokerstars 2/4c NL is $.80, which would close to 10% of your bankroll. Be careful what table you chose ive seen some pretty sketchy playing on there, watch before dropping a buy-in. Rule of thumb is not more than 2% of BR into a tournament BUT with $10 max its hard. If you make a few bucks on the 2/4 and want to try a quick increase, try the PROFIT you make on 5/10c full table ring game. Stay grounded, be patient and remember not many players become millionaires overnight, good luck

PS gave me $2 on the 8/10/09,I have only been playing the .01/.02 tables and as of yesterday i am at $32.If u have the patience then do it my way,if not then gamble.

I would also take into account on what game u prefer playing.i much prefer ring games and i know i can win at those stakes.

Good luck

Lazmansa

def play ring games if you want money, sit and gos take a while to accumulate a bankroll...

start at 1/2 cent and work your way up.. when you get over 500 bbs for the particular level you can move up, i started out with 10 on pokerstars and was up to around450 by the end of the month, started out at 1/2 cent then moved up from there.. its quite interesting everytime you move up in the levels you need to be able to adapt quite well and adjust your game to the players

when i say 500 Big blinds i mean you have 10 so you have got 500 big blinds for the 1/2 cent tables, so to move up to the 2/4 cent you will want about 20 and so on until you accumlate chips... Basically what this system does is limit the amount you can put on a table so you cant lose your entire bankroll in one sitting... Chris ferguson has a thing about it on full tilt acadamy that you may want to look at...

Shortstack $25NL IMO.

I would just go straight to the 1 dollar double or nothing tables.

I would play 1c/2c NL. But, if you like to play limit poker you should play the lowest limit tables they have.

After you build up your bankroll a bit make sure that you always have at least 30 buy ins before you think about moving up in stakes. You'd be suprised how long a downswing can last.

i had $50 and lost $40 in a cash game above my bankroll(got bad beaten and sucked out on the river a couple times and just went on monkey tilt), i stopped playing when i only had $10 and didnt want to go busto. i was depressed and didnt play for a couple days, but eventually got back on and was determined to win all my money back + interest! lol.

so how did manage to grind my $10 bankroll all the way back up? i multitabled the 25cent 45 men sit and goes. only 7 players get in the money but out of the 45 players at least 30 of them are donkies and/or inexperienced playes. all you have to do is pick your spot and double up 2-3 times in the tourney to be in the final table and in the money, and with so many bad players its pretty easy to double up. they will call all in with ace rags, shove all in with a bluff, call your all in with a draw, call all in with middle/bottom pair, call all in with small pocket pairs. so all you have to do is show them down with good hands to double up off them.

i multitable 20 at a time in a session and with such a small field size and lots of bad players i am in the money almost 30%. and if you are an average to above average player you can easily have that same percentage. and out of the 20 or so tourneys that i play in one session i win 1 or two of them and finish 2nd/3rd in a couple of others and 4th-7th in a couple others. in my best session i finished with $14 profit, and on my worst session i only finished with like -$1 or so.

i would suggest playing these sng's if you have small bankroll, very easy to beat, very little variance, and depending on how good you are it can be very profitable, especially if you multitable these sng's. i would actually suggest multitabling as many as you can, because no matter how good you play these sng's you will get sucked out a couple of times and lose a to a couple of bad beats.

with that being said i have grinded about $80 profit in just the last week and a half, could have been a lot more if i played more.

thats my advice for you, since i was basically in the same situation you are in right now and ended up building my bankroll fast this way. if you are good at tourneys/sng's then definitely do that, but if you are more of a cash player then just go to the micro's and play the lowest limit.

hope i helped

play in either the .01-.02 limit or NL. Also try freerolls until you get your bank roll up...Good luck

Your advice is terrible because its an extremely high variance way to play....If he cant play 3-5 tables, then play one, it will not take a year to double his roll dumbazz, my advice was not shit, yours was...

Very sound advice Wall. Not leaving yourself cushion room is like a death sentence unless you're depositing.Not everyday is a good day at poker.It's always nice to have a little BR to play another day a maybe replenish some funds.

Micro ring games are a good way to go.

Ya budddy.. Attta boy JD.. Tell him how its really done.. lmfao.. Whats WV call those guys? Short stack POS?.. lmfao..

This has to be another candidate for response of the year

if you read my thread i stated i was exaggerating that it would take a year, stop replying to a thread just to make your 7 posts a day before reading what your replying too ENTIRELY.

Secondly in my response i stated that if he didn plan on ever depositing again than dont follow my advice. your advice was shit compared to mine and its an opinion anyways....mine opinion is just better than yours.

im sure ill have to wait til tomorrow to argue again cuz your at your max posts for the day.

i think this is also something to consider. i got that $2 free from ps and only played a few don's, i won 2, losing one with my AK against QQ, gross how i remember that. just wasn't that huge a fan of the site and didn't stick with it long enough to go busto or to build a br, not to say i won't have a few drinks and try it again. $6-10...i think you're in decent shape to end up feeling good about yourself after playing a few of these as long as you play like a total nit but be ready to shove crap all in when the blinds are high and you're short if you haven't played these before. i considered the .10-.25 tourneys...but never played them, they looked like total crapshoots. a previous poster pretty much confirmed (by his account) that you can play these tight all the way to all-in-or-fold time and double up to stay alive against what i was sure were lousy players....even then that would leave a sour taste in my mouth...getting sucked out that damned much when i actually have something worth playing. still not really much exp at playing ring games for me so i can't speak on that.

it really depends on you. if you're serious about not depositing, or not re-depositing, spend some time thinking what cheap game you feel you have the best chance at without having to be as much of a gambler. i mean, there's nothing on that site you're properly rolled for with that little br. so yeah, br mgmt is out the window...but you can still exercise some responsibility with what you have. obviously, you have the most shots with the 10 cents, and the next most with the 25 cents. the rake is killer on the don's, but your chance of winning, i think, is way higher. i think 3 for 5 still earns you a few cents there, haha....when you put it like that...that's the downside to them.

I say stick to the micro stakes cash games til you get your bankroll up. You can just wait for good hands in cash games w/o worrying about the blinds going up and eating your stack. The blinds never go up in a cash game, so be patient and just play your good cards til you get more experience and a bigger bankroll to work with.

All of the experts say that you gotta have a good cash game foundation to be a good poker player. So, I'd try to get really good at cash games first. In Tournaments many players go through long droughts and sometimes don't win anything for months.

well i was going to get started by tearing in to some of the bad advice given, but i dont wanna start a war here
but my opinion would be stay at the small stake tables/tournys, i think bankroll management still applies with a small balance, and jumping to higher levels too soon can elimanate a balance fast- believe me- Ive done it way too many times.
Ive also made a healthy balance on MANY sites from freeroll starts- and a balance can go up quickly (somehow can go down faster tho) and really, there are many games and styles and I think you got to choose what works best for you

I agree with playing the .02/.04 tables to build your BR enough to play in a 1.00 sit-n-go. I like to play a little on the cash tables to support my tourney buy-ins.

if hes got a 10$ roll hes not in it to make a huge profit..why cant he takes the same steps in proper BR management with a smaller Roll? I dont see how it differs

Learning proper bankroll management is important no matter how much you deposit. Isnt that the first lesson we all learn when we start playing poker??? Isnt it the first advice any strategy guide has ever given you IE: Play Tight Poker and Properly manage your bankroll???? Telling someone to blow an entire bankroll on one sit-n-go is just ridiculous and the WORST advice you could ever give someone.............

I'd take it and look for the cheapest double up sitngo. play tight and loosen up later and stay commited to small stakes til you build it up a little, like to $30. 5 out of 10 double their money, so if you keep your head early and dont call off your chips on draws, play only solid hands, you can build it up. I started with $7 on Bodog and played similar tourneys, built it up over a grand, took over a year but I stayed the course and now have accounts on 5 different sites. Trying now to follow my own advice on those sites. Good luck and stay comitted.

You can do it in two ways...

FAST AND AGGRESSSIVE or SLOW AND CONSERVATIVE

if you want to do it
FAST AND AGGRESSIVE

1) you need to figure out what you are good at, such as Hold'em, Stud, Omaha, Razz.

2) if you are better at Heads-Up, or 6-Max

3) The fastest would be playing Heads-Up Tournaments... but only if this is your strong point. It is very risky but it can be done.

I read on BLUFF about a guy that turned $250 in to $25,000 playing nothing but heads-up.

SLOW AND CONSERVATIVE

1) Here you want to sit at a full table with at least $1, again what ever you are stronger at, Hold'em, Omaha, Stud.

2) if you sit down at a Table with $1, and your bankroll is $10... when your total combined profit equals more then 10% you must walk away from the table... this means that if you sit down with $1, and your bankroll is $10... when you make $1 you must get up... so when you get to $2 at the table.

Best of Luck

Honestly depends what you are looking to do. Are you playing for fun and to learn the game? Than I would play the low level ones but if you want to atleast make some money you honestly have to have a larger bankroll.

Keep playing low stakes. I would recommend that you keep playing 1c/2c micro tables and just grind it up from there. Taking a stab at a $10 tourney is not a good idea. This will give you terrible habits for when you do decide to really start playing poker seriously at much higher stakes.

Playing big tournaments will ultimately just make you eventually go broke. You will also start to tilt when you lose too much.

Just keep playing micro limits and youll be fine.

Good luck!