General "Where to start" question for MTTs

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I'm somewhat sick of the cash grind so I am pretty much trying to figure out how to go about playing MTTs seriously. Just to give a general idea of my skill level, I am a pretty solid winner at .5/1NLHE 6max (~8PTBB/100). (other poker experience is moderate winning at SS LHE and crushing of PLO8100).

I am not totally inexperienced with MTTs. I have read all three Harrington on Hold'em books. I've won quite a few small buy-in tournaments ($5-$30). I've only played in a handful of tournaments over $100 (my biggest cash being 25th in the FTOPS #4 6max event, for $2500).

Because of neteller and general online poker uncertainty, I have restricted my bankroll to $10000.

My question then is, what should a player roughly of my skill level start playing at? Every time I play MTTs I get too conservative and avoid playing above $25 buy-ins, but I feel that I can do better.

(also, in the switch, I am trying not to fall below $50/hr which is my break-even point for "poker as life").

Thanks in advance for the help!

[A_Junglen]

Don't do it, life is worth living.

[Heavens_Myst]

depends on ur roll, i think general census would be 10/180 20/180 ?

[kleath]

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QFT, you are sick in the head if you play MTTs full time.

[JayPez]

seems like with 10k roll, u should be playing...

$5-$20 rebuys.
$20-$100 freezeouts.

if your a decent mtt player you should have roughly a 100%roi, on average a tourney takes you lets say 2.5hours to complete.

so to maintain $50 per hour you need to play register for around $150-$200 worth of touneys per hour. (number is guess for the time that you are playing tourneys but not registering at towards the end of the session).

as your rolled for the $100fo's and $20r's but might not have the skill level for them (i dunno) you could just play the full tilt ones, but not the stars ones (which are tougher).

i'd probably take odd shots at the big nightlys too.

[MJBuddy]

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if your a decent mtt player you should have roughly a 100%roi, on average a tourney takes you lets say 2.5hours to complete.


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Might wanna try this one again. All of this one.

[kommunizt]

Stick to cash games. Regular income and chance to move up in limits? that's 841132!

[CharlieDontSurf]

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I'm somewhat sick of the cash grind so I am pretty much trying to figure out how to go about playing MTTs seriously. Just to give a general idea of my skill level, I am a pretty solid winner at .5/1NLHE 6max (~8PTBB/100). (other poker experience is moderate winning at SS LHE and crushing of PLO8100).

I am not totally inexperienced with MTTs. I have read all three Harrington on Hold'em books. I've won quite a few small buy-in tournaments ($5-$30). I've only played in a handful of tournaments over $100 (my biggest cash being 25th in the FTOPS #4 6max event, for $2500).

Because of neteller and general online poker uncertainty, I have restricted my bankroll to $10000.

My question then is, what should a player roughly of my skill level start playing at? Every time I play MTTs I get too conservative and avoid playing above $25 buy-ins, but I feel that I can do better.

(also, in the switch, I am trying not to fall below $50/hr which is my break-even point for "poker as life").

Thanks in advance for the help!

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For fulltime playing I would imagine your far better off sticking with 6max cash and slowly moving up stakes.
I'm in a similar boat as you..played 50NL and some 100NL but I don't play fulltime and have a real world job so cash games became boring as [censored] and I am moving back to only playing MTTs when I play online.

[zasterguava]

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QFT, you are sick in the head if you play MTTs full time.

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Isnt that what Shaniac et al do?

[Dunkman]

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QFT, you are sick in the head if you play MTTs full time.

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Isnt that what Shaniac et al do?

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Yeah, but I don't think that contradicts the statement...no offense guys.