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June 1, 2012
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Hey KB, I know you have a family too so you will prob get where I'm coming from with this one.
Im gonna throw it out there with all my history coz I'm pretty much stuck on where to go now.
I started out playing online around 3yrs ago with Micro MTT's, then went to SNG's and then played a lot of $2,$5 and $10NL cashies where I learned a lot but was never a winning player. Recently joined TPE and dropped right back to 2 tables and now just 1 to concentrate on correct plays (was playing 6-8 tables.) I've been watching training vids for about 2 yrs every lunch break at work from other sites and yours now (SNG's, Cash and MTT's.) Got a full time job, wife and 2 kids so pretty much no spare $.
Since joining TPE and watching vids (especially Cougars,) I've started to become a small winning player at $2-$5 MTT's and some SNG's. A few live wins as well at pub tourneys and I've got my Bankroll (if you can call it that) up to about $800.
I play online as many nights a week as possible but am stuffed from work and have found I am only playing well with 1 table, which isn't as boring at you'd think when learning to play properly:) I've got a full 10 hours dedicated to play every Saturday though with no interruptions, and this is where I normally FT a few micro MTT's or get deep, but again only when playing 1 table atm. I'm basically playing during the week so I'm keeping up ready for the Sat session.
My main question is with this bankroll & only 1 tabling, should I be able to play higher stakes like $10-$20 freezeouts? The variance in these $2-$5 micro MTT's is so bad it's obv gonna take for ever to get anywhere. I thought maybe with 1 tabling, my roll could handle these higher buy ins with the idea of building the roll up to something decent. I plan to play the lower buy ins and add more tables once I re-learn properly from TPE but am definately not a winning player unless single tabling right now. On the “smaller” sites like 888 and Lock the players seem just a bad in these higher buy ins as the lower ones and the fields are smaller, so that might make a difference I think. Even Stars is good on Saturdays here in AUS as the fields are smaller.
Any thought on this or comments/ideas etc would be great!
Soz about the long post but it's pretty damn frustrating at the moment and I'm dedicated to making this work no matter what 🙂
Thanks in advance for any ideas!
May 30, 2012
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think you can play 10-20 tourneys if you want mate, i mean obv you cant wipe your roll out quickly if your 1 tabling, plus smaller fields will help alot, also if you lose alot you can easily drop down at like 400 or 500
June 1, 2012
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Cheers to Donskey for pointing me to his excellent post here!
I agree you can probably play slightly higher since you are only 1 tabling. Just be prepared to drop back down in stakes if say you lose half of your roll. I think it's actually really nice to hear someone playing less tables and really focusing. That's how you get better and are able to establish more solid fundamental reads. I could never mass multi table like a lot of pros. I felt most comfortable playing 6 and felt that was where I played most optimally. I'd play up to 9 on Sundays especially since there were so many great tourneys but felt I could get a tad bit overwhelmed at times. Continue focusing on improving and then I'd start trying out playing 2 tables and see how you feel doing that.
June 1, 2012
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Cougars4444 said:
I agree you can probably play slightly higher since you are only 1 tabling. Just be prepared to drop back down in stakes if say you lose half of your roll. I think it's actually really nice to hear someone playing less tables and really focusing. That's how you get better and are able to establish more solid fundamental reads. I could never mass multi table like a lot of pros. I felt most comfortable playing 6 and felt that was where I played most optimally. I'd play up to 9 on Sundays especially since there were so many great tourneys but felt I could get a tad bit overwhelmed at times. Continue focusing on improving and then I'd start trying out playing 2 tables and see how you feel doing that.
Thanks for confirming this for me Cougars. Coming from you really helps the confidence 🙂
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theres fish at every stop but at the low micro level there is just way to many of them on every table so moving up stakes definitely reduces the fish factor but raises the skill factor with only 1 table on the go your focus may be the dominating factor. with 800$ to work with i would plant myself at the 10$ tables as this gives you 80 buyins and some would say thats still to high and if your roll starts to go south then you have to drop down, do not chase your money
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