Building a bankroll.....SnG's or Ring games?

[Irishsaint]

Now I know what most people will say, "play to your strengths". But besides the obvious, if you had and limited bankroll of lets say $150-$200. How would you go about building this? SnG's or cash games? Limit or NL? If you knew you could re-deposit in a week of about the same ammount would you play up a limit to try and build it a bit faster? Thanks for your time!


- Derek

[rwrangler]

To play with the safe 300 BB for limit ring games, you would not even have enough to play .25/.5. However, you do have a large enough bankroll to play the $5 one table SnG's. THese are quite loose on stars and if you simply play tight you will automatically be a long term winner. Add some more skill and you could have a nice ROI. This is how i grew my bankroll in the beginning until I had a sufficient BR to play various limits of limit ring and NL ring. Also give you good tournament experience if you don't have any.

hope this is of help

[dev_cat]

I built my bankroll up with S&G's mainly, until I had ~$1000. Then I got PT and returned to limit cash games. I think you can make a quicker $ with a limited bankroll on S&G's. Don't know if others would agree with me.

[Irishsaint]

Did you play 1 table or more at a time?

[dev_cat]

I didn't multi-table all that often. I've always prefered single tabling. I play for fun / as a pass-time. I've always prefered to get involved with just one table, rather than the franticness of multitabling.

I started playing at Party and then Paradise, playing $5, $10, $20 and occasionally $30 S&G's, with a preference to 5 or 6 max. I then cashed out pretty much all my bankroll (~$800) and started again at Pacific with $50. There was a ~$2, 40 man S&G where only the top 3 places get paid that I used to like at Pacific. The rake was appauling, but the game was so soft. That helped build my deposit from ~$50 upwards into the hundreds. I also played a lot of 5 max S&G's.

After I'd reached about $1000, I returned to cash games as I thought they might be less fustrating and more profitable, and PT allowed me to really analyse my game. Cash games have been more profitable, especially with bonus chasing, but not less frustrating . I can't tell you that this is the best way to build a bankroll, because I don't know that it is. It is the way I did it though.

[crazyhorse77]

It really does depend.

I started with limit ring games, and S&G, and was up and down in both.
I never really went in either direction greatly.

In the last few months, i started playing full ring NL and haven't looked back, i guess it is the best fit to my style.

I still occasionally play S&G's but they seem to frustrate me more than anything.

So i would suggest experimenting and finding out which seems to work for you.

[crazyhorse77]

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[crazyhorse77]

double post..

[Yorkshire Pudding]

With $200 you could be rolled for the following quite comfortably:

NL10
FL $0.25/$0.50
$5.50 SnG

A good player at NL10 should be beating it for at least 7-10PTBB/100 which assuming 60hands per hour is between $0.84-$1.20 per hour.

A good FL $0.25/$0.50 could probably hit 3BB/100 (am I right here) which again with 60 hands per hour is around $0.90 per hour

If you manage to hit 25% ROI (which would be great) for the $5.50's you'd be earning around $1.38 per game which take around 60mins to finish.

As you can see it's going to be a hard slog indeed and why so many players at micros take shots at higher stakes and go busto pretty quickly.

Find a discipline you are best at and also as important is one you enjoy and hang in there as it's a rocky road ahead of you!