Daily Dollar

Ok, long story short I made $2.25 off of the razz freeroll on full tilt. Before this I had $0 in my BR. So I was wondering if the daily dollar tournament would be a smart one to buy-in to. I see that they pay 1080 places and with a low buy-in I was thinking the competion wouldn't be very good.

Good idea? Has anyone here played in this and if so was it hard to make the money?

Good luck because with that BR you cant afford any bad luck whatever you play, if you go for it I recommend the 9 man satellites.

If you want to try to get through all the donks in the DD then go for it...I'm with Gr3atness on this one. Or go for the 6 man-2 places pay...if your BR is that low then go for this. Try the DD later when you got it built up.

To try and build up my BR I played the dime game. It's a re-buy, but I couldn't affrord it and didn't. It also pays many places and should increase the profit margin if you're just sqeaking into the money.

I think it is. The DD is very easy to cash in. You just have to stay pacient and wait out all the donks. Also, towards the bubble if your on the bubble here is a tip, in the DD people get eliminated very fast. You may think that you won't make it if your at like 1080 with 30 people left to get knocked out but, you will. GL and congrats on the freeroll cash.

I think so, I have play for daily dollar before.
It is so loooooooooooong time to play.
I played about 4 hours ,to get 70th.
Feel veeeeery tired.
Hope u enjoy some game like SNG.
I will not play at daily dollar more.

Trying to play in any MTT with such a micro bankroll is just silly. Considering the amount of variance in them, you'd almost have better luck with a scratch ticket.

Try a few small sng's...you'll have a much better chance of making 'something'.

And btw...i've taken 2nd in this tournament before...so I know what i'm talking about...save your money and stay with sng's for now...and once you get a bigger bankroll you can consider trying it.

It's a good tournament because it's deepstacked. (meaning if someone donks you, you'll still have enough time to rebuild your stack and you get alot of play out of those 3k chips) The only problem is the runtime. I think it starts at 7pm and ends somewhere around 5am if you make a deep run. It's a grind.

Ive cashed a few times including a fourth place for 450! check it out Bomber32

It takes three hours to get to the money at about 1080th, I highly doubt it was down to 70 in one hour. If you said 6 hours I would believe you.

If you want to play daily dollar tournament, you play every night for a ticket to this tournament, you start with 300 chips, blinds increase at 5 min, of 7500 men need to go into the first 200 to qualify and took the ticket to daily dollar.
But keep in mind that this tournament is very hard.

Is this a freeroll into the daily dollar?

What should I get my BR to before entering MTT such as the daily dollar?

I would say 1 dollar. But thats just me

Yeah he's talking about the Daily Dollar Satellite Freeroll on Full Tilt. It opens at 17:55 (5:55 EST), and it starts a half hour after sign up. The top 200 get into the Daily Dollar for free. Stay really tight for the first 2 levels because ppl will be shoving with anything, try to avoid 3-way all-in's, after that stay TAG, and towards the bubble play a little more aggressively. I've made it a bunch of times it's not that bad.

Ok I'll try that...I have won a ticket to the ferguson through a freeroll like that. 2700 people, top 100 get a ticket.

Standard that you should have is 50-100 buy ins, for a low buy in tournament like the daily dollar you can have lower without breaking your BR I believe its
completely reasonable that you could be cashing 35% of the time, because unless you run bad or are a bad player, its very hard not to cash.

Still you're gonna need 20-30 buy ins to be safe, and thats assuming you're only gonna play the DD which has notoriously bad play and takes like only 2-3 tournaments to get the hang of playing.

For building your BR, best recommendation I have is staying active on the forum and getting into the freeroll club. Great play and good payouts for putting in only your time, takes only about 2 hours to cash in comparison to 6-7 hours for regular freerolls, I dont even touch those anymore.

If you know anything about cash games I would try to grind microstakes for a while. Leave the table if you ever get above about 1.5 what you started with until you have a few more buy ins. After this you can move into SnGs. This is what I did and it worked fairly well. with such a small bankroll don't be entirely surprised if variance kills you completely.

For MTTs? Ideally something like 50-100 times the buyin, and closer to 100 since MTTs are super-high variance.

Basically you're not rolled for anything with just a couple of bucks so take your shot at whatever games you feel you're best at. Ordinarily I'd say steer clear of MTTs when you're playing with a low bankroll... but since your bankroll is so low as to be practically non-existent and the daily dollar is so soft... meh, may a well go for it.

If your gonna have a go at it with only a couple bucks in your account, you are gonna have to pretty much think like a donk...especially early. I'm not saying you have to play like one but remember, the first couple hours are pretty much a crap shoot unless the deck loves you that night. Don't try any tricky plays, or things considered more advanced, unless you know you got the nuts, or you are not risking too much. If you are thinking about raising to isolate or shoving, cause 6 of nine just limped in, and you have a premium hand...forget it, chances are most of them will call you with just about anything. If your just looking to just cash to build your roll, play tight with your raises, and see cheap flops with hands that have potential. Don't over think things either, if someone just shoved 10000 into a 400 chip pot, chances are they just busted their nut and have something. And like someone mentioned above, if you are close to the bubble, it probably will go by quickly, so don't panic too much. Around the bubble 30+ players can and probably will bust in minutes. One of my biggest pet peeves are when you have like a 2000 chip pot and someone min bets like 50 chips...I've had to learn, that in the Daily Doofus, just go along with it, unless you got it, cause chances are if you have a decent holding and decide to raise, you will get called down. Play does get a little better towards the end.

Played my first daily dollar tonight. Finished in 161st out of 8,134. Not a bad place, but still a little salty.

Was staying around 40th-60th once ITM, and as high as 26th. Ran into a couple donks who called down with nothing, and caught a miracle on the river to cripple me a few times.

In my opinion you should play a 1.10$ MTT because they usuallly pay like 150-200$ for 1st place and there are usually like 400-700 players depending when you play it (morning, night etc.) and with the rest you should play satellites or if you want you could play 9 handed satellites for 0.25$ i think for the Daily Dollar, maybe you can win 2 or 3 tickets to the Daily Dollar, but the daily dollar has like 8000 entrants usually and takes like 8-9 hours so its not worth making the effort. Good luck

Agreed. A big mistake people make is trying to hit it big with there whole bankroll. If you really want to turn that bankroll into something you have to give yourself more than one chance to do it if you can. Go for the sit n go or better yet start playing .01 , .02 cash games. Not with your whole bankroll tho. Buy in with the min., double it, stand up and repeat. Its a bit of a grind but i did manage to turn 10 into 108. Didn't follow my own advice tho and ended up back on the freerolls. Also, check out the FTP article on the Chris Ferguson Challenge. Try and follow Chris's rules on bankroll management. It's very helpful.

Also, that guy who called it the Daily Doofus made me laugh...

That be me
Hee Haw

Daily Donk?

I'm in the Daily Dollar Rebuy. This is even worse than the regular Daily Dollar, because the donks know they can rebuy.

This brings up something interesting, I don't play rebuys often, and I don't really know the BRM necessary for rebuys, I've heard of setting yourself up to rebuy only a certain amount of times to minimize loss... so lets say 2-3 rebuys, so instead of 100 buyins, would it be 200-300 buyins? So for a dollar rebuy tourney, 200-300 dollar BR?