Looking for advice what route to take with poker

[hpdeuces]

Newish to poker but have put in good time studying, especially 6-seat 10NL cash games. I feel comfortable 3 tabling and am currently recouping my bankroll from a few unlucky coinf lip situations. Whilst I am confident I will progress higher up in cash games I am wondering if anyone has any advice on how to incorporate MTT's into my bankroll strategy. I enjoy them but also find you need to be very lucky to get anywhere near final table for the 1000+ tournaments. I find it just ends up with someone going all in preflop nearly every hand. Whats the best way to incorporate them without putting a big dent in your bankroll(200). freerolls just don't cut it.

 

[BenSprocket]

How to incorporate them without putting a big dent in your bankroll?

Erm...play cheap tournaments.


Did you really need help with this?

 

[hpdeuces]

Pull yer finger out

was thinking a bit more detailed than this...i.e. allocating a certain percentage of winnings to tournament entry fees something along those lines

 

[liuouhgkres]

If you are new to MTT follow 100BI bankroll management.

 

[neart13]

was thinking a bit more detailed than this...i.e. allocating a certain percentage of winnings to tournament entry fees something along those lines

Yeah exactly this! If you're playing 10nl and you have a particularly good winning day just enter a tournament with some of the winnings! Maybe like a 2/3/6 dollar tournament once every so often!

 

[Evan Jarvis]

Newish to poker but have put in good time studying, especially 6-seat 10NL cash games. I feel comfortable 3 tabling and am currently recouping my bankroll from a few unlucky coinf lip situations. Whilst I am confident I will progress higher up in cash games I am wondering if anyone has any advice on how to incorporate MTT's into my bankroll strategy. I enjoy them but also find you need to be very lucky to get anywhere near final table for the 1000+ tournaments. I find it just ends up with someone going all in preflop nearly every hand. Whats the best way to incorporate them without putting a big dent in your bankroll(200). Freerolls just don't cut it.

Never invest more than 1% of your bankroll in a tournament, focus on smaller field tournaments (under 500 or even under 100 players) at first where the swings are smaller.

In general until you feel very comfortable with cash games I wouldn't bother playing tournaments. They take a ton of time and don't offer the consistent earn that cash games do.

The benefit with tournaments is that when you make the final table you will often be playing for highish stakes against people who aren't used to playing at these limits. But you can only cash in on this if you are very confident in your game, so I would say get more practice first (the MTTs will always be there, not like they are going away )

 

[eberetta1]

There are tournaments with max players, so if you are tired of tournaments with 1000+ players, feel free to find 256 player tournaments.