Here I mean the tournament.Just in detail,if I want to make money about 2000 dollars every month though playing online poker tournament,and I play six houses a day in average.Then what tournament level should I be?
Well....you would have to make $66.00 every day if you play 30 days in a row. That is not very practical, so lets say Wednesday through Sunday, for 5 days a week. That is $100.00 per day you need to win to make 2k a month, but keep in mind that is not correct because you must subtract the buy ins from your wins. So if you can spend $25.00 a day and win $125.00, for example, you will make 2k a month.
Yet, some days you will have to make far more to cover the days you do not make the minimum you need daily or the days you make nada. And in an MTT, that could be more than a few. So you need to determine what the MTT you are playing in has for a minimum cash payout. And you will need a high percentage of those min cashes to make it.
Now, you certainly could, if good enough, play in the merge sunday big ticket each week. You could bypass the $215 entry into that by winning entry into it in steps. For example; play $1.10 games for a $30.00 ticket win and then win one of those for a $215.00 entry (it might take more than that, but you get the idea). They have to be, however, games that have those tickets for the top ten people who make it, not just as the top prize. This increases you chances. They do have games like this.
The problem with all of this is the "bologna-steak" syndrome of making a living this way, not unlike salesmen. Some months you do not hit your target and eat bologna. Some months you make more than this and eat steak.
As you can see, it will not be easy. In an MTT if you lose one, that is it; you are gone, start again. For this reason,
I would seriously consider playing cash games instead. Those daily targets are far easier to hit consistently in cash games. In cash games you can make calls based on pure math. For example, say you do not think your
odds of winning in a certain hand are all that great. However, if you make the call every time in the same situation, the times you lose will be less money lost overall than the times you win; the one time you win can more than pay for the times you lose. When you lose you can simply replenish your stack. You cannot do this in a MTT as any loss eliminates you.
So if you move over to cash games, you need to learn Bankroll management and more math of the game itself (as shown above in that sometimes you call knowing you might lose) and get real good at it. You start at the least expensive games (2c/4c) and move up ($1/$2, etc) until you find one you are steady at. You will still run into the "bologna-steak" syndrome, but hopefully far less.
Hope this helps. And keep in mind that either way you need to keep close track of your performance; win, lose, break even, days/times played to see what days/hours have more sharks, which has more fish, etc.
