I've been grinding micro sngs and have run into some variance of late was looking for input on your standard buy in x formula most of you guys use, when to move up levels or if you hit a bad patch step back down.
Maybe the 100x rules fits you fine. If I were you I wouln't play turbo sng because the variance will hit you badly. Try out some regular speed multi-table tournaments if your client offers any.Also you can try out some MTTs whith the same buy-in as your sng,you may run deep and give your BR a vital breath! Move up stakes only if you have the proper BR.
I've been grinding micro sngs and have run into some variance of late was looking for input on your standard buy in x formula most of you guys use, when to move up levels or if you hit a bad patch step back down.
I agree with Aces, most people move up way to early by looking for a "formula" that says they are ready to move up. Its not a "bad patch" causing them to step down, but rather getting beat causes them to step down.
Its not about buy ins, its about beating the level. This takes time, and if you can bet a level you should have WAY more than 100x the buy in. If you aren't in the black at least 500x the buy in, you aren't winning.
Micra stakes are mostly very basic game put still .. if you cant hande it on micro level then it gets harder and harder on higher levels. Try to get so big bankroll that you dont have to worry or even better if you dont have to think you are playing with real money and every loss will hurt. If you are afraid to loose then you should play smaller bets.
It depends how much you are beating a level by. If you crush a level you can get by with less. If you are barely beating it you will deal with a lot more variance.
Personally I don't use a formula but I choose an amount I'm really comfortable with. The more turbo the game gets the more amount of buy ins I will need to have in order to be more comfortable to play. I use like 200-250 for tournaments, with some exceptions. 100 buy ins for cash
I have terrible BR management online but in live poker I have great BR management. Somehow it just seems easier with real money opposed to just numbers on a screen
I've divided my BRM in 3 categories: aggressive (20-25 stakes), conservative (40-100) and proffesional (100+).
Aggressive will be very helpful in micro and little stakes just to faster run away from that place.
I said this in another thread, but when I was a PXF member YEARS ago, the standard method was to have 100 buy-ins. Basically this is to ensure that you're playing your game and not playing scared. If you drop down to 80 buy-ins, time to drop down a level of play. If you get up another hundred buy-ins, time to move up... until you drop to 80.