Thanks for the replies everyone. i really like playing double ups. but the smallest double up on bovada is $5. so should i just start out in the $1 sng's until i build my bankroll up?
Yes I would suggest you try running with the 1$ sng's as it would likely be your best option with such a small br and given that the lowest cash tables on bovada is 5nl (which would only give you 8 buyins, it would be a fairly high ROR to play cash).
I play 2NL trying to grind up have been for a while, ABC is so robotic and boring, plus with all the books and studying I am doing it is training me for stakes higher as you can't even apply the strategy from them at the micros.I took a shot at a 25NL table and ran it up to $93 in a couple of hours (ran pretty well) but that shown me that I can play at 25NL no problem, so I have came up with a plan to deposit £20 a week while I am still grinding until I have around $800 then I will move to 25NL, is this a good plan and am I right in doing so?
Re your 25nl why jump from 2 up to 25? Typically taking a shot would be a buyin or two at the next limit (not 4 limits up, you jumped over 5, 10, 16 assuming we are talking stars) which would have been 5nl, you probably did something I always did with cash and that was tilt jump stakes and look to chase my losses.............this will surely end up with you busting. Also it sounds like with that successful shot you should be br'd for 5nl so why not grind it out and see if you can't grind your way up to 25nl..........I mean if you feel you can truly do well at 25nl then you should be able to grind through 5nl and 10nl in no time to get up to 25nl.
I would play $3.50 sit n gos with 6 players. You would need to lose 11 times to go bust. However if you aren't used to sit n gos maybe play a few $1.50 buy ins to get the feel for them first. Ideally you would wanna play lower than $3.50 but I find $3.50 is the lowest I can play without feeling pointless.
Definitely don't do this, 11 buyins is horrible brm for sng's.........50 minimum IMO and 100 is better.
Also he isn't playing on stars, he is playing on bovada so I think they typically go 1.1, 3.3, 5.5 maybe.
Good luck. 40 is a good bankroll starter.
Not on bovada it isn't, the lowest game there is 1$ and I believe that is a 45man and maybe they have some 1.1$ mtt's so your talking 40 for mtt's/mtt-sng's its not absolutely horrible but certainly going to have a high ROR especially if op doesn't yet know if he is a winning player.
On stars this would be a great starting br because of the baby micro options available with 10c 360mans and 25c 45/90mans and 50c 9mans up to 360mans etc...........but US facing sites just don't have these kind of micro stakes.