What should i be playing online with a 200$ bankroll?

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Hello, I am 18 years old just finished school and i want to be a professional poker player. I have been playing for 2 years and i would say i am definetly capable of beating low stakes mtts (I am pretty good with ranges, isolating limpers, bet sizings, timing tells, like just the usual super easy stuff to beat a 5$ ABI player...). In 2 years i won around 20k but i was just mostly playing for fun and whenever i wanted to. Now i want to take it more seriously since i finished school and I think i am capable of working hard and succeeding in poker. The problem is, I only have 200$, (wasted my whole bankroll on hot 109's, bounty 530's and so on...). How can i build my bankroll slow and steadily? What should i be playing? Is it even possible? Any advice is highly appreaciated. Thanks in advance :)
 
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For tournament poker, I've always heard/read that you should have at least 100 buy-ins.

So your max buy-in should be $2.

Slow & steady wins the race!
 
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if i only had 200 and that's what i was heart-set on doing....i'd participate in the forum like it was my job and join the cc freeroll club when possible since that will be some good EV freerolls. i'd hop onto all the american legal poker sites and play literally every freeroll i could get into and play TAG/ABC poker on as many tables as i could to get myself in the groove of treating it like a job. after a couple weeks i would hope to have more in the bankroll and start playing the micro limits in cash, stt, or mtt whichever you find yourself best at and only risk whatever is above the 200. slowly build it and only move up in stake when you have to. the good thing is your bills will be paid by your "real" job and you can screw around online, win some, build some statistics, get a backer if you choose (but only to move up one stake level) and start kicking tail again. to manage a living (provided you're crashing with roomates or family, live on a budget, etc) would only be a thousand a month or so....that's 35 bucks a day on profit. 10% profit on 350 in tournaments or at 5bb/100 you'd need 100 hands at 7 bucks, 1000 at .70, or 10,000 at .07...i guess the most reasonable of those is the middle one so you'd be at .25/.50 or .50/1.00 and play 3 hours with 4 tables or something along that line.... but you have to build the roll to get there. take advantage of bonuses and such along the way when you can.

keep in mind this is all spoken by someone who is attempting to freeroll (and soon to be micro stakes) himself into 120.00 per month of profit not make a full living
 
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no bigger than 1,5
 
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As others have said, $2...since you need 100 buy ins. I would also suggest learning to grind one type of tourney like a 90 man or 180 man sit and go on one site. You can become comfortable with the flow of those tournaments and the type of players. A $2 180 man SNG will play much differently than a huge $2 MTT which is basically a free roll.

If you want to build a small bankroll you are looking for a consistent game. You also don't want to wait forever that game to start. You will probably want to take shots at some MTTs with thousands of entrants...and DO that. But try to save those shots for free rolls and rewards points buy ins. Remember, time is money. A huge free roll or MTT may be fun, but do you have the 4 or 5 hours to play it?
 
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Any mtt or sng less than $4.00 buyin that is my suggestion.

If you want to be conservative do half of that and go for nothing over $2.00 which equates to 100 times buy in relative to bankroll.
 
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With a $200 bankroll the first question I'd ask:\
Cash or tournament

If you go tournament, to minimize impact to your bankroll start off with wagering no more than 2% of your bankroll in any tournament - so no more than $4. Stick to $3.30 or lower.

For cash, it depends on how aggressive you want to be. When being conservative employ the 40-50BI rule, meaning that $200 gets you into 5NL. If you are capable of playing higher, as soon as you make $40 take shots at 10NL and as soon as you dip below $200 go back to 5NL.
 
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100 buy-ins is a bit excessive. I think 20+ buy-ins with unbroken BRM should be fine.
 
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100 buy-ins is a bit excessive. I think 20+ buy-ins with unbroken BRM should be fine.


I think that when he said to play with 100 times the relative value of the bankroll, believes it would be for you to play more healthy and calmly, because justly that amount is within your management.
 
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I think you should be playing forum money added games, freerolls, and $1 buyins until you get a bankroll to support higher stakes.
 
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If you want stability, then play cash games. Cash games have an advantage, since the variance is less than in tournaments. I advise you to play on the microliths 0.01$/0.02$.
 
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first you need to know more level this, it is certainly not in the 109 dollars, I am being frank with you, you did 2 ke wasted as I said before, I think the best thing to do now is regency of BR, play for a few months buy from until 10 dollars, and take an average of my itm, and ROI, until you are at your right level.
 
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100 buy-ins is a bit excessive. I think 20+ buy-ins with unbroken BRM should be fine.


this is the perfect recipe for disaster. 20 buy ins are not enough to beat variance.
 
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you say that you consider yourself a great poker player but I really think you are a very bad player because if a good player from nothing rises to 20K $ and then loses them in bankruptcy he is a very bad player and should continue studying poker and reading some articles on how to manage your bank so I think you're bad or the average is still studying and by the way go to school is never bad to have a university degree
 
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my opinion is play the 1.10 dollar tournaments. It's still good enough to have fun and the payout is high enough to make the tournament worth while. You can play $2 games if you want but no higher. Play some sit and gos, play some tournaments, play some cash games and see what you like out of all of them.
 
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I would play everything $0.55-1.5 and regspeed freezeouts $1.5-3 until 500$, then move to regspeed freezeouts $3-5. Depends on what room you play, if that's stars, probably would be better to play mtsng, not mtt for the same buy-in first.
 
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you can play SNG, set limits, start playing $ 1 and as you win, you can go up in level, you can also play low entry satellites for important tournaments or tournaments that you like.
 
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You wrote, you made 20 k in 2 years playing for fun. you might find out playing serious let's you lose more often, as you will play MANY more hands. So I'd really consider playing these CC Freerolls and 1$ max buy ins, and whenever you are above your initial bankroll, let's say you have 250$, give it a shot with 10 times 5$ buy ins.
 
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You wrote, you made 20 k in 2 years playing for fun. you might find out playing serious let's you lose more often, as you will play MANY more hands. So I'd really consider playing these CC Freerolls and 1$ max buy ins, and whenever you are above your initial bankroll, let's say you have 250$, give it a shot with 10 times 5$ buy ins.
Good words. Try to play alot at lower stakes, then you can easy and without fear play higher limits, because you will have experience and better skills. Experience is all in poker. Every day try to implement new things/tells/reads into poker, strategy etc. Then with time you can with pleasure play poker at any stakes.
 
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Do you guys really believe that story? 16 year old starts playing poker and makes 20k? :rolleyes:
 
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Do you guys really believe that story? 16 year old starts playing poker and makes 20k? :rolleyes:
I gave my son $500 to play with the summer he was 16 and he ran it up to $3400 in 10 weeks. This was the summer of 2004 and I think it was easier to make money online back then. You could play $2-4, $3-6 Limit, 6 or 8 tables at once, straight by-the-book ABC poker and people would just give you money. He cashed out at the end of the summer and bought a Fender Jazz bass and a 400 watt Hartke amp. When I went to casinos with him after he was 18 he did better than I did.
 
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Stick to the low stakes MTT and cash games, you moved to higher stakes when you were not ready, the players get better when you move to higher stakes.
 
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Hello.
I recommend that you play mt in the tournament worth no more than 1 dollar. Bankroll management is very important.
 
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Hi

I try to play cash games with at least 30 buy-ins and tournaments with a 100 buy-ins. Good luck !
 
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