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I am new to this forum and fairly new to poker in general. I'd like to hear your opinions on what type of sng's i should play with a 50 dollar deposit?

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I'd say you should play the 1.20$ STTs at Stars until you soundly beat them, play some more until you made your losses back and have a BR of 110$ and then move to the 5.50$ STTs.

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usually it costs more than $50 to learn how to play [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Its not my first 50. I've actually been playing the 6.50's on stars and doing fairly well... just not as well as i would like. I brought my ROI from a -3% to 6% in the last month - month and a half (not like that is such a great accomplishment or anything because i still have -3% profit.. lol)

So i guess the answer to my question is i shouldn't be play at the 6.50 level and i should be playing lower??

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If I were you, I wouldn't waste my time on anything lower. The raker is terrible at them lower stakes. Ideally thats not good bank roll management, but its worth the risk at this point.

The higher the levels you play, the better you have to be about bank roll management.

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Yeah if you are running bad play some 1.20s but why do that if you can win some 5 dollars and be ready to buy back in if you go busto.

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If you really don't want to re-deposit any more money..I would set up an accout at UB and play the 1.10's..

However, if you really think you can beat the 5.50's or 6.50's then I would just deposit more money.

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i recommend depositing 600 (or as much as you want to double for free) at full tilt to get the bonus. while youre learning its nice to get the installments of 20 dollars every so often to make up for any losses. you can play the 6.50s there with a comfortable bankroll. they also have $2+0.25 tables.

and remember to sign up for rake back if you do.

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This is is really the best course of action IMO too.


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i recommend depositing 600 (or as much as you want to double for free) at full tilt to get the bonus. while youre learning its nice to get the installments of 20 dollars every so often to make up for any losses. you can play the 6.50s there with a comfortable bankroll. they also have $2+0.25 tables.

and remember to sign up for rake back if you do.

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I gonna assume you aren't able to just deposit any amount that you feel like.. so $600 is probably unreasonable. Its hard to tell where you are without a big sample size, but if you are able to redeposit if you happen to run out of money then stay at the 6.50s, if not or if it will be a big problem then drop down to atleast the 3.40s if not the 1.20s. Other than that I would recommend posting hands and reading and responding to other peoples questions and you should see a big improvement to your game.

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OP : where are you ?

If you are European, I think your best bet for SnGs is Everest Poker as they have STT starting at 0.1$ with only 10% rake and then every level you can dream of when you are playing microlimit with a micro bankroll.

I started there.

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OK, so you have 50 bucks and some 6.50 experience where you ran about break even (or less since you're redepositing). The first thing I'd do is school up on ICM, get the free 30 day trial of SNGWiz and plug your tourneys in, and study. Post your questions, since you at least have some history to fall back on. Depending on how many tourneys you have under your belt, with ROI's like you mentioned at the 6.50's you're bound to have some big but easily fixable leaks, so plug them before you do anything else. Review, study, review, and study some more. And post hands. Then get you 50 bucks in with the lowest possible STT's you can find and just soak up experience. Or, better yet, find or steal another $100 from somewhere and at least get into the 3.40's with a decent BR.

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Wow... thanks for all the feedback. I expected some wize ass answers but that wasnt the case at all. Really good points to consider. Thanks for all the help.

Anyone have the link for SNGwiz?

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Anyone have the link for SNGwiz?

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http://sngwiz.com/

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Thank you very much.

Another question: Can you guys (if possible) just list a few possible leaks that a newbie like me could have at this point?

I have played almost 500 games on Pstars (and almost double that on Doyle's before they kicked us U.S. players out). On Doyle's i did farely well in the 10's and 25's... but over on Pstars i seem to go on run's with the 6.50's where i will cash 80 to 90% out of 20 games and then go extremely cold and lose like 10 in a row. It is really really frustrating because i know i can beat the games. Is this normal? I mean, i know swings are common but this seems to be all the time with me.