Bank Roll vs Entry Fee question

Just wondering how much of your bank roll should you be putting up for tourney entry fees?

For instance, say I have a $300 bankroll...what size tourneys should I be playing? I am thinking 5-10% of my roll. I know I have the habit of playing a $100 tourney if I have 300. I know that is way too much.

Any suggestions would be helpful

5-10% is still to high IMO. I tend to (try to) use chris ferguson BRM. 5% (20 buyins) for SNGs and cash games and 2% for MTTs. It seems steep but with larger field comes less chance of cashing, just by pure math. so with $300 you should be playing $6 MTTs and below and $15 SNGs.

trewtrew said:

5-10% is still to high IMO. I tend to (try to) use chris ferguson BRM. 5% (20 buyins) for SNGs and cash games and 2% for MTTs. It seems steep but with larger field comes less chance of cashing, just by pure math. so with $300 you should be playing $6 MTTs and below and $15 SNGs.

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I aggree...!!!
The Ferguson system makes the most sense and keeps you from
loosing control. But you have to have much discipline...

I have taken advantage of pokerstars self limit, I put it so I can't play any ring games and I cant go past 4$ dollar sng and mtt.
It takes 24 hours to raise your limit if you want to go to a higher games.
I know before my last break every time I win 2 nice size games I would go out of my league and hope I can win, did it every time and lost it every time.

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5-10% is way to high for MTT. You want to stick to 1-2%. With STT you can bump that up to 3-5% although a standard rule for serious STT is above 50 buy ins.

I would say somewhere between 70 and 100 buyins for MTT's. Its just way more variance.