I'd again say what I said in your other thread as well.
You have to make cash or sit n gos your primary poker game to move up to places.
How many successful mtt'ers do you see in the current game that just plays mtt's? Only a very few & still they buy & sell action to reduce variance.
It's a very frustrating road just playing mtt's.
And I also believe you are playing too much on the conservative side. Good brm is needed but you need to take risks to get bigger rewards.
The best way to combat the variance is simply increasing volume. E.g. In 2016 I racked up 4886 MTTs @ 8.02% ITM at PP. The ITM is really skewed because there is a chunk of $0.01c sats that pay only the top 2-4 places in a 100+ player field that bloats the #s.
Adjusted ITM is actually at 19.33% against 1,790 MTTs. I put in a solid 7 months worth of MTTing last year. This averages to approx 8-9 MTTs/day (ex the $0.01 Sats). Ref
here.
My strengths are MTTs. My ITM% is actually above avg. given the volume. My problems with the PS has been the slim to non offerings available in the form of micro tourneys (e.g. $0.11/$0.22 MTTs). If there were options like this earlier I would've been able to hit $50 in about a month and a half. I managed to run a $0.80 BR to $90 in PP in the span of 3 weeks because they had $0.11 rebuys at the time.
See there's a bit of an oxymoron there. I already know that aggressive 30BIs and regular 50BIs. Folks recommend sticking to these BRs and sell action to reduce variance. I can forgo this by enforcing a 100BI rule. There are a number of valid reasons in this case to stick to a 100BI standard in my case:
- I have a well known history of tilting hard. I've been very candid about it from my first post in CC. And two forms of tilt. Both the frustration and the loss in confidence tilts. This has drastically improved in practice from setting more realistic expectations and reading up on the subject matter though.
- The player fields are 1k+ (min $600 Gtd will require a 1200 player pool). I'm used to playing player fields of 400-800. Variance will be a bitch
And ditching the lowest level tourneys is another thing I'd say as I did before. Play 50/60 cent sattys to bigger games with that brm.
You do realise that Sats tend to pay 10% of the field as opposed to the more regular 15% for MTTs? Mathematically you have a greater propensity to cash more frequently in MTTs as opposed to Satellites. Mind you, you've got to first get in the 10% to qualify and then cash in 15%. Plus you've also got to make adjustments to the gameplay because of the disparity of stacks and blinds/ante levels from sat play to MTT.
I grinded a healthy
bankroll playing donkfests (smaller fields though) on party in the $0.22 and $0.55 tourneys there. I'm only applying the same experience here.
I'm also used to multi-tabling 3 MTTs a min at a time. I've actually felt very lethargic at the rate of play I've committed till today. After announcing thread yesterday I played 4 MTTs (min 3 tabling) and cashed in all 4. This is an outlier of an example. But the tendency to cash more frequently and run deep is directly proportional to how frequently I grind and multi table.
Your life would be a hell of a lot easy if you pick up cash or sit n gos.
Not the 45/90 man ones. Try 1 dollar 6 max or 9 max ones. When you become good at it you can build up your br consistently with some scores occasionally from mtts.
Cash games is where I tilted my bankroll off (twice because I'm too stupid to learn from the first mistake). I've come a long way but have got to put in more time to improving cash game play and tilt control. Right now I'm improving on my MTT game.
I used to play all those variations of SNGs in 2013 and I was a losing player. I will need to put in time and practice. I'm reading up on Sit N Gos atm and have a private mini challenge planned in the next month or 2. I will be incorporating this in my game.
My SNG BR ( and eventual Cash BR) will be funded by the MTT cashes as opposed to your recommendation though
