Building a bankroll in mtt tournaments

[fouralarmbaby]

Hey everyone I am trying to build up a bankroll from about 50 dollars (I am a college student so cant really afford much else at a time). I heard that playing in mtt is a good way to do this. I was thinking of trying to do this by playing in 2 dollar 180 person sit and goes on Full Tilt. Does this sound reasonable to anyone?

[levAA]

good luck, but for 2/180s I think you should have at least $250.

i would suggest the 1/45 and 1/18 on stars, and search for some freerolls of course.

[Sherman]

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I heard that playing in mtt is a good way to do this.

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Lies.

Anyhow, you are wanting to take 25 BIs (actually less b/c of rake) into 180 man MTTs? Probably a bad idea. Try the 1/45s on stars first.

Your best bet at building quickly is to go to cash games. Then play MTTs when winning something will actually be worth your time.

Sherman

[swede554]

Go find a part-time job, work for a couple of weeks, take $500 of the money you made, deposit that, and start playing the $4/180's, the $6/45's and other <$10 mtt's.

[EroTheMad]

Three months ago i started playing 2$ 9 player SnGs for bankroll building. I deposited 50$ played like 100 but couldn't get well. I was stuck around 120-100$. I was learning the game. After two months of playing like 300 SnGs i thought SnGs suck because if you know the perfect strategy for them it still takes too much time to build bankroll. at 2$ 9 players your ROI will be at best %17ish. this means you gain ~0.37$ on one SnG. And if you start your career with downswing it'll really hurt you. Then i started to play 5$ 45 players and got nice cash outs and doubled my bankroll to 200$. But still not cashing in like 5-10 tourneys on a row at 5$ when you have like 150$ really hurts. Now i grinded my bankroll to ~300$ and playing MTTs. This is what i wanted at first but variance is deadly. I still couldn't get to final table like for 40 tourneys, got busted 11.-12. lots of times. It hurts so bad. When i'm down to 220$ i'm playing some cash game and 5$-10$ 45s and make my bankroll up to 300$. Still wondering if MTTs aren't my game.

I can say don't try MTTs first or at least get min. 100 buyins, if you're learning the game 150 buyins.

[Bagonirix]

Plz dont do it, stick to 2NL

[fouralarmbaby]

I am really new to all this. Thanks for all the advice everyone! Yeah I have really noticed how bad the variance is for the tournament play. I guess I will try to grind it out in the low limit cash games. OMG I feel like such a noob but what does 2NL mean? Thanks again everyone!

[PeanutFlush]

On Poker Stars, the 2+.20 satellites to the Sunday Hundred Grand are very soft, and lots of players who have no idea how to play satellites. An easy way to win $T, just read up on how to play satellites.