Bankroll issue

[EasyPoker]

I have around $28 left in my stars account after initially putting $40 in around a month ago. I understand that $40 is the min bankroll for 2NL cash games.

I play 6 max 2NL cash games on Stars.

Recently, I've been playing $1 and 0.25c MTTs and been doing quite well. I either get ITM or final table most of the time. (HEM puts me $24 in profit overall).

It's making me think, shall I play these MTT to try and build up a decent bankroll to hit the cash games properly rolled, or shall I just put some more money in there myself? The latter option is something I don't particularly want to do, but if it's the best option then I may consider it.

I find cash games more of a challenge...

[Sprayed]

I would stick with either small field micro buy-in MTTs, micro SNGs, or micro cash. Don't play too many large field micros since the variance will be higher.

[taipan168]

Play whichever format you enjoy most, but make sure that you're properly rolled for whatever you do play.

[Pnjs_dad]

You have to play what your comfortable with playing as well as a game that your properly rolled for. If you don't then you'll usually lose. GL with whatever you decide to do.

[Penneywize]

To build on what Sprayed said - if you can stick to lower field MTTs, all the better; for large-field 1$ MTTs you'll need a roll of about 100$ to mitigate the variance.

50$ should be fine for the smaller fields, seeing as how you're at $28 I'd ride it out and redeposit if you go bust (its 28 bucks after all).

[drmcboy]

deposit if your goal is to move up, you can skip a couple super micro steps and save lots of time while still learning the ropes.

Use a 100 BI minimum rule for large MTTs

Very much agree with sprayed, play some big MTTs for fun/chance of huge bump. But your main game should be SNGs (45/180s are OK) or micro cash.

[EasyPoker]

[quote="drmcboy"]you can skip a couple super micro steps and save lots of time [./quote]

what do you mean by this?

[drmcboy]

Let's call your roll 30. you decide to play 1 dollar SNGs. You have a really nice 20% ROI so you're making twenty cents per. To move up to the $3 level, you want to have $100 to give you 30 BIs or so. So you need to earn $70. 70/.2 = 350 SNGs you have to play assuming you run at 20% plus, which you may not, so it could be more like 500-600. I don't know how much you play a day/# of tables, but for many part timers that is a huge amount of time.

I am sure if you can beat the $1s for 20% you can beat the $3s for a least 10% (and probably the two will be closer) and that means you increase your ave win from .2 to .3, which is 50%.

So you can either play 500-600 SNGs, or deposit ~100 bucks. You'll learn a lot playing the 500-600 so there is nothing wrong with it. But in addition to moving up quicker with the despoit, you could use the "time saved" to study rather than grinding the last xx tourneys.

If you were going to deposit 5k to play $100 SNGs, I'd say make it 1k and grind through lower BIs first. But the same logic doesn't apply < $10-20 or so (imo) because you'll have new players all through those limits, as well as many recreational players who are never going to be any good but can afford to donk off $500 a month.