Which tournaments are best for the beginner to play. SnG or MTT?
Make sure you practice bankroll management through your learning. If you learn right the first time then you won't suffer the fate of 99% of potentially great poker players who never made it due to bad bankroll management. As such, they were never able to climb the ranks. I believe I strongly fall in this category but I have greatly improved as soon as I took ownership.
Sng's are best for a beginner. If you play on stars, play the 1 dollar 180man and the 45 1 dollar 45 man tournaments. Play regular and slow speeds.
Avoid turbos. Slow games give you a lot of room to maneuver and room to recover when you **** up or take a big hit. And most importantly the slow games are played by people who are serious and want to either learn or make money.
The turbos are played by lot of of action junkies and some regs.
I would recommend that you play a minimum of 1000 of these games. Before you move on to the 45 man turbos.
What's more is that the slow tournaments will not hurt your bank account too much. Depending on your level of skill, you might even make some good money playing them but if not it's cool. Unless you are completely new, you should at least be breaking even while you learn.
When you start final tabling 10%+ of your games then you can graduate to the 1.50 45 man turbos.
The 45 man turbos are a great way to learn how to navigate late stage play in tournaments.
They are actually really great for learning all stages of a tournament but more so late stages.
These ones have the potential to hurt your account if you are reckless.
I'd recommend that you play at least 500 of these games before you move onto Mtts or Bigger SNGs.
During your learn phase, don't move on until you are making profits on each phase. It will be a pain in the ass but the reason you shouldn't move before you start beating the games is simple.
If you are not beating the games the your skill level is still improving, which means you don't have what it takes to be those games yet. Why would you move on to a tougher game if you can't beat your curse t stage?
That will only widen your skill gap even more so and you will hate poker for it.
Good luck man.