Here are my thoughts about
that article:
1)
Stay In Your Line.
Well i'm totally agreed with a statement, that Bankroll Management is most important concept in poker career of anyone. And every one who takes poker seriously and not want just pay some money for having some fun, should strictly stick to it. However excuse me for the critics, but what this "BRM table" is all about?!
It says, that we shall invest 3% of bankroll with $100 or under, 5% with BR of $100-$200, 10% with BR of $200-$500 and 15% with >$500 ! Eh, what the..?! What's the point of that we are increasing percentage of investments for each tournament, as we have bigger bankroll? Is that so we gonna waste our money quickly on higher stakes and come back to micro limit hard grinding again? Sorry, but it makes no other sense to me. I know some people choose more conservative BRM and the other, who are more eager to climb up faster with more risks choose more aggressive BRM. But in my opinion, as you figured out for yourself, how your BRM would look like, you have to stick to it on EVERY limit and not making it more and more aggressive with each next level. 15%?! That's insanity for me. Even for SNG-Tournaments, where you tend to use more aggressive BRM in comparison to MTT-Tournaments. Because you are obviously more often in the money.
I would recommend to start with 1% of Bankroll for MTT-Tournaments and with 3% for SNG-Tournaments to anyone who is new to poker and i wouldn't go over 5% for MTT-Tournaments until you have such a huge Bankroll, you can live of it. Just keep in mind there are the Downswings existing and you possibly could loose like 20 MTT-Tournaments after each other, even if you are damn good tournament player. That's why i think that BRM-Table is nonsense to me.
2)
Avoid Re-Buy Tournaments Like The Plague
I'm agreed with that part totally. But have to add to that - playing re-buy tournaments is okay if you are keeping yourself from re-buying. As it said in those article, you will get the best price only for buy-in and never for re-buy. So let the other dummies doing that mistake investing more money in prize pool and if you got busted, just let it go and start another game, as it were some Freeze Out tournament. That's how i do myself.
3)
Ignore Sign-Up Bonuses
I should say to this part of article - yes and no. Yes, it is not very easy to fulfill the complete deposit bonus, if you play only tournaments. And yes it's much easier for cash players indeed. But nobody forces you to deposit $100, as in those example, i would do something like $20-$30 and still stick to my limits, considering my whole Bankroll. And the most offers about deposit bonus are paying off with some parts like 5% of whole bonus. So even if you don't get paid the whole bonus at the end, at least it's very possible to get paid at least half of it. But i do recommend to plan such things carefully and make such deposits with bonus at the time, where you know next month or two i have a lot of time to play poker and if not, maybe wait up till you will be more free for playing poker. As you need to play a lot to get something paid back from it.
4)
Stay Off The Tilt Express
I'm totally agreed with this one! I've got even not much to add to this, except one - possibility of tilt is one of the reasons why i do prefer to play many tables at the same time. So that if some bad beats happen, i don't fix on it and don't have much time reflecting about it, as i have to play many other hands on another tables. Also if i loose one or two games it doesn't bother so much, as i'm winning two three another games. Would be different if i would play just one or two tables. I'm not appealing everyone to do the same, but it just works for me better that way.
