$2 only-what would you do?

Right, Iv been playing freerolls on Fulltilt for a couple of weeks.
After 4.30 hours I finally picked up $2 scraping threw the UK freeroll in 27th !

Thing is now, whats the best way to spend it or would it be wiser to leave it and try and build on it? I want to spend it wiseley as it took me so long to get

Cheers

you could jump right in and play some micro ring or cheap buy-in tournies, but because you only need to lose a small amount to have too little to be able to play at all, it probably isnt a good idea.....

$2.00 / .80 min buy-in doesn't allow for much variance and severely limits your play in regards to starting hands.....with so little margin for error it kinda forces you to play scared, extremely tight....without catching just the right hand it can be hard to make any signifigant gains playng that way.....
and if you do catch that big hand, unless it's the stone cold nuts, all your time spent trying to gain some traction can go right out the window when that 1 outer comes for your opponent





IMO, trying to build on it through more freerolls is a better plan....get up to 8 or 10 dollars before playing buy-ins or RM ring ....then you'll have enough to play a few S&Gs and/or several ring game sessions

skip the 5 hr marathon FT freerolls where you need to make a 1 in 100 finish to cash (top 27 of 2700 pays)

instead, play in some of the innumerable private freerolls with smaller fields .... many of them have miniscule prizepools and spread payouts way too far so that even a near final table finish you're likely playing for just .15 or .25 cents ...but they add up.....could easily triple your br in just a handful of sessions

I'd definitely try to boost the br a bit before risking any of it, but if you do decide to put the $2 in play right away, dont play any large field MTTs...just too many landmines to avoid....better off playing a S&G or a small field private tourny

Keep playing private freerolls or deposit. If you feel like you might want to deposit, go ahead and play a $2 tournament first to see if you get lucky and don't have to deposit.

Money wise

Since you play on FTP ...I will mention that there is a .10c game w/$20 added that should fit your bank roll perfectly! It's called The Nightly Forum Gathering held every night at 21:59 est. It is password protected .but you get find easily in the FTP forum. By my count that gives you 20 games to play and build up your bankroll!....GL

Deposit. Figure out an amount of money that you won't miss if you lose it, and bankroll yourself. $50, $25, even $10 can be enough to get you started.

If you can't afford that little, one could argue that you probably shouldn't be spending your time playing poker, especially when your average win rate is measured in pennies per hour.

If you're simply afraid to deposit because you might lose the money, you need to get over that at some time anyway or else you'll be playing with scared money forever, so the sooner the better.

I would try to save it and play some more freerolls until you can add on to it and then when u have a small amount gathered up you can start playing micro games and try to build on ur bankroll and work your way up thru the ranks its not easy to do but can be done I have never deposited in any client and have made several hundred dollars in each client i play in this way just takes time and patience and alot of skill

You could always keep it and build on it, or possibly play the daily dollar?

Arjonius said:

Deposit. Figure out an amount of money that you won't miss if you lose it, and bankroll yourself. $50, $25, even $10 can be enough to get you started.

If you can't afford that little, one could argue that you probably shouldn't be spending your time playing poker, especially when your average win rate is measured in pennies per hour.

If you're simply afraid to deposit because you might lose the money, you need to get over that at some time anyway or else you'll be playing with scared money forever, so the sooner the better.

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The thing is I have deposited before and would like to deposit again but,
Iv got a side bet with my freind for a decent amount and its the first to build a bankroll from freerolls !

Think I mite play some micro cash tables and a few shots at the $0.10 games

Cheers

Crummy said:

You could always keep it and build on it, or possibly play the daily dollar?

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Yeah with good playing it's possible to get ITM in daily dollar.

Building it up before playing with it is sort of a waste of time.

Options:

A) You play with it and have a losing streak, so you have to go back and play more freerolls.

B) You play with it and win. Now you can keep playing $ games which are substantially more profitable.

C) You save the money until you have a bigger bankroll. Now you can do steps A or B.

Step A is like step C except with A you are guaranteed to spend the least amount of time in freerolls before you start playing/winning real money games. So really, C is the worst (unless you need to spend more time learning the game).

i built my BR from freerolls. i agree saving up to be rolled for 2nl is a waste of time. i waited to play 2nl until i had >$40(20 buyins) and as it turned out i only needed 1 buyin. if i needed more then i could always go back to do freerolls. if i were to do it over i'd go right to ring games and multitable playchips until a had like 4m then start playing the 500k playchip entry $40 freeroll. if i got $4 i'd go right to 2nl. but i might also play some 25 cent daily dollar satellites.

Wait and save? This is a poker player! I would recommend double-up S&G, where you have 50/50 odds of winning. Just play conservative and try not to go all-in. The worst that can happen is you'll lose your earnings and have to start over.

i don't think you should play a tournament (even the best players have an ITM % of <20%, so you have no lee-way with only $2), you might wanna just buy into some microstake ring game with your entire roll and try to run it up a bit before considering other options

my personal opinion would be to save the 2 dollars and bild on it...every now and again full tilt ome out with some special deals, for instance the take 2...and all u need is a small br to get it going...id advise you to really concentrate on the ftp its elfy..like the poker million for uk and irish players...200ftp...cause on october 16th there is a 5000ftp...try win a sat into this, as there is huge money in this...its 250000 guaranteed and no money needed to register...

There is a nice Nigerian gentleman who can help you invest that. You probably had an email from him already.

Either play more freerolls which is lame, play some .10c tournies/sit'n'go's which is the best option or let it ride.
That is, buy in for $2 on a cash table and wait for a decent-ish hand and shove then hope you win.

Egon Towst said:

There is a nice Nigerian gentleman who can help you invest that. You probably had an email from him already.

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Funnily enough I did have an odd message earlia
And Iv now got $3.85 after a couple of extra hours
Trying realy hard to not go back to them blooody freerolls !