Reload weekly or Grind ?

This is a question I asked in a few forums and never received a satisfactory answer.

My question is I will never be a professional poker player and have no desire to be one. I have a decent paying job and a career and poker will only be a hobby.

I play at most 4 hours a week.

Should I just reload weekly and play $15 to 20 SNG's or grind my way up the stakes?

I'd say start with a bankroll ($20 SNG should be at least $1000) but find a level you can beat first so you don't have to reload so much.

it's a longer process to grind your way up
your more likely go around in swings.
one cash, on loss one first place, min cash lose lose. etc etc.

I think playing one sit n go for $20 is ok but stick to 6 seaters and if you cash
you may get lucky cash again, and your looking at $60-$110

Your bankroll is NOT what you currently have deposited on the site.

Your bankroll is whatever amount of money you have set aside for playing poker with.

If you're willing to reload a certain amount, at a certain rate, you have a much larger bankroll than someone who wants to deposit one time and then grow it from there (or never deposit and build from $0).

Let's say you like to play 4 tournaments a week. And, you have $50 to deposit each week. You can play $10+$1 tournaments on that bankroll. If you only wanted to deposit once, you'd be limited to $1.00+$0.10 games. If you happen to go broke in all the tournaments, you just redeposit the next week and give it another shot.

You'll probably not lose all the games (hopefully not). Say you break even, the next week you'll be able to deposit another $50--if you want. Then you'll have $100 to play. You could move up in stakes. I would probably move up at a 50% rate. Meaning, you would move up as if your account was $75 not $100. In this case, you'd play $15+$1.5 games the second week. If you lose all of them, a deposit the week after allows you to give them a second shot. Losing again would bring you back to $10+1 games. You'd be able to keep taking shots up, as long as you are willing to keep depositing, keep winning, and feel like you can beat the games.

Or you could not deposit again, unless you lose, and keep moving up or playing until you went broke.

You have a lot of options, if you're willing to deposit. Since you have a much larger bankroll. If you deposit once, you need to be more conservative about moving up and the games you play because going broke means you're unable to play anymore.

Or you can just grind the freerolls here, better then nothing lol

depositing is good if you wanna startr at higher limits. thing is you must have the most possible money in your poker account in order to be rolled properly for any limit. you dont wanna be depositing in small chunks.

It seems that you are saying that you don't want to earn money from your poker (I get that) so the 2 options open to you are to keep depositing (and losing presumably, if you need to keep doing it) or start small and try to win at small stakes (the 'grind' in your opening post).
I gather from this that you consider yourself fairly inexperienced— being aware of this is a good thing, believe me.
If my interpretation is correct then I think the advice already given is way off the mark. I don't believe you will enjoy repeatedly depositing for $20 sng's for very long, even if you win a few, and even if you can afford it.

If you want an enjoyable hobby then strive to become a winning player
Deposit by all means, but start with the small stakes at first— Even if the quantities of money don't mean much to you, you are going to feel much better about your poker at the end of the year, and in the years to come, if you're showing a $50 profit than you are if you have won $200 a couple of times but end up down $1000

As you learn more and improve, you can move up the levels, while still staying at a level at which you can win.

Hopefully this will give you a game that you will continue to enjoy

Good Luck

I deposited $50 in Bovada about 6 months ago. it's been up and down, highest was $200. About $120 now. (playing mostly $3&$5 SNG's and 5c/10c cash)

I dont have the set up for multi-tabling. I can play max 2 games at a time, so I play one cash and the other a sng or a tournament. By the way, is that a good idea? mixing cash and tournament windows?

I think also if you're playing poker to enjoy it and just to enjoy it play at the level you enjoy if you get exited over $100 pots then play those levels if you get just as excited playing for $5-10 pots then play those. I believe I heard that Bill Gates plays 5/10 or even lower in Vegas as its not about money its about enjoyment, those are the levels he enjoys so those are the levels he sticks to.

Yeah go with what your comfortable with, But personally I would start at the $5 Tables, master them, then go up upto $10 & so on.

Yeah & what vinnie said.

The size of your roll isn't the sole factor to consider in terms of what level to play. There's also a little thing called ability, or more precisely, relative ability. If you're not good enough to play regularly at a particular level, you shouldn't, regardless of your BR.

Note that this doesn't exclude taking occasional shots, which is fine if you're beating your current level at a decent rate.

OP, if poker is a hobby and $20 games is what you like to play, and you can afford it, then just play them and re-deposit when you need to.

You mentioned above only poker as a hobby and limited time 4hrs a week.

With those words, I advise you to better start from the lowest. You have to apply Bankroll Management i.e. BR= 100 x big blind (cash) and BR = 100 x buy-ins(tournaments) at the very least/minimum.

If you can reload, then its better since youre not at the minimum end of BRM.

Goodluck.

hffjd2000 said:

You mentioned above only poker as a hobby and limited time 4hrs a week.

With those words, I advise you to better start from the lowest. You have to apply Bankroll Management i.e. BR= 100 x big blind (cash) and BR = 100 x buy-ins(tournaments) at the very least/minimum.

If you can reload, then its better since youre not at the minimum end of BRM.

Goodluck.

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For cash games your bankroll should have like 2000 x big blinds actually which is 20 buy-ins. 100 buy ins for MTTs.