Where to start?

[RapidEvolution]

I'm a relatively new poster (I've posted some hands before) and would really like some start-up advice from the more experienced players. (compared to me, that's probably most of you lol). I've been playing poker for a few years, NLHE for about 3 years and have been doing some serious work at my home games. After a good bit of reading and re-reading (HOH 1, 2, and 3, SSHE, Super System and some others) and participating in freeroll tourneys (best finish 4th out of 700) I feel ready to jump into some micro limit.

I'm thinking of starting with a $50 bankroll. First of all, is this enough for the lowest limits? Is it better to do cash games or SnG's? Any recommended sites? (I'm in the US)

I know I'm asking a lot, but any help/advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

[pocketse7ens]

$50 would be right for the smallest nl cash games around, nl2 (1/2 cent blinds), I think UB has them. Whether you play cash/sng's is just a matter of preference.

[casey_brick]

Stars has a lot of $1 MTTs and they're alway running $1 45 man SNGs.

If most of your experience is with tournies these will probably
your best way to build a bankroll. Whatever you choose micro cash, MTT, or SNGs, I'd recommend reading through all the stickies in those forums.

[RapidEvolution]

Thanks guys. I know that Stars will match up to $50 (which seems good for me) so I'll give that a shot. (almost had a bad typo there lol) Happy Birthday casey! (I assume that's what the cake means) I'll make sure to read the stickies as well.

[StefanBD]

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Thanks guys. I know that Stars will match up to $50 (which seems good for me) so I'll give that a shot. (almost had a bad typo there lol) Happy Birthday casey! (I assume that's what the cake means) I'll make sure to read the stickies as well.

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This might only work with MTTs and SNG because you won't be getting any FPPs playing the microlimits cash games (still not much playing the other type of games too though), so you probably want to concentrate on the former if you're aiming for the bonus.

[SmartBugger]

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Thanks guys. I know that Stars will match up to $50 (which seems good for me) so I'll give that a shot. (almost had a bad typo there lol) Happy Birthday casey! (I assume that's what the cake means) I'll make sure to read the stickies as well.

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This might only work with MTTs and SNG because you won't be getting any FPPs playing the microlimits cash games (still not much playing the other type of games too though), so you probably want to concentrate on the former if you're aiming for the bonus.

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Better advice would be to play micro-limits and grind them up to about 150-200 where you can move up. You have like a year to clear the bonus.... don't aim for that, aim for a bigger bankroll and it will come over time.

SNGs have huge swings (and MTTs even more). It takes at least 100-200 SNGs at any level to see if your a winner or not.