Considerations beginning my attempts at LHE.

[MJBuddy]

My current BR is 500~ dollars. I'm a MTT player - it's what I'm good at, etc. but I'd like to pick up particularly a cash game to play between MTTs.

But my question is where to start. Problems I run into is:

-Trying to care about lowest stakes.
-I definitely don't want to play 25/50lhe even though I believe I'm rolled for it, because I'm definitely not experienced enough in LHE to show a significant BB/hour.


Balancing these two is harsh I guess. Question generally is if I should partition part of my bankroll and play only off of that for LHE and let it grow naturally with my play so that I move up in stakes and still feel somewhat competitive about it?

Any advice is definitely helpful. Thank you in advance.

[CrMenace]

How big are the buy-ins in your MTTs? You're rolled for about $5, given a 100 buy-in rule of thumb. You could lose that in a single hand of $.5/$1 LHE; You could easily lose (or win) $25+ in a sit.

[Brain]

I hope you forgot a decimal point in 25/50 b/c that's only 10BB and definitely not enough. I think general limit bankroll requirements are 500BBs so I would probably suggest splitting your BR and starting @ 0.25/0.50 so you can keep playing the $2 tourneys (congrats btw, I read MTTc too [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ).

[MJBuddy]

Yeah understood decimal I hoped :P. Sorry.

You think a flat split is good? I was going to do closer to 25% or 10%

edit: thank you btw for the grats.

[MJBuddy]

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How big are the buy-ins in your MTTs? You're rolled for about $5, given a 100 buy-in rule of thumb. You could lose that in a single hand of $.5/$1 LHE; You could easily lose (or win) $25+ in a sit.

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Rolled for 4.40/180s and lower. I take rake into consideration for 5.50s and won't play unless I'm slightly above 550.

[Brain]

No prob, I'm a spelling/technical nit. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

If you want to keep a sizable chunk for MTTs, start with $60-80 at .10/.20 and work your way up from there.

MJBuddy's Robusto Plan
1. Hang out in micro
2. Post and reply to hands
3. ???
4. Profit!!

Although running up $500 at $25/50 would be balla!

[MJBuddy]

Oh, if you follow MTTs forum at all, you can not only expect me to follow the forum, but also to post and not be an idiot. I wouldn't be branching out if I didn't trust my game in my game of choice yet. My big cash and subsequent deep runs over the last month have cemented that :P.

[Brain]

No worries, I know you'll be good.

Otherwise, I'll go make Jurollo take you back. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[MJBuddy]

Oh...and Longhand or Shorthand?

I have a little experience SH NLHE...but that's an entirely different animal really. I eventually want to move into LHE MTTs as well and none of them are 6-max yet, I don't believe.

[Brain]

I would recommend starting with full ring because there's less variance than shorthanded and if it's too slow or whatever for you, give 6max a try. I greatly prefer full ring to SH, but that's just me.