weeeeee said:

Hey KB, i'd like to see an article that will take into consideration of BRM based on volume more so than on $$ if that makes sense. For example: 

Your ABI is XX well say you are a player that can only get 10 games of micro stakes at night and also let's put factors of prizepools and cashes of MTT's in place of that. Which one is the best value to play? 

 

Here is what I am getting at…I am a US based player and I my options based on where I live in the US are limited to only a few of the remaining US friendly sites. Well i have a certain roll that I am able to deposit and don't want to re-deposit for it takes me days it seems to deposit on sites like WPN. It took me two days to deposit on WPN due to only allowed Western Union in my area (a big pain). So the roll is small as a deposit on sites. In reality with a roll of 300.00 is an ABI of like 3.00 and my plan is not to deposit ever (due to the big pain to redeposit) so my aggression factor is like a 4. So that puts me at 1.00 MTT's, 5.00 to 10.00 shots of SnG's and 10nl Ring games. Now if you look at say Winning Networks, schedule that are 3.00 and below and look at Prizepool, there isn't very much value to play. So really that puts me in making a shot at the Big10 1K 5.50 buyin like a couple times a week (and that is the only time playing) and the On Demand tourneys of the 1.00 and 3.00 (which do pop off quite frequently) but they prizepool is not good. It takes long time for the SnG's to pop off and sometimes just waiting so no real good volume to put in is at best tough and so the less volume, then ROI begins to suffer unless you are freakin awesome which i am not. 

So the BRM article (which i looked at often) from RFB is great in it's theory but it is also written for those Pokerstars/Fulltilt poker folks and appeared to be written around or before Black Friday. so it's good for those ROW players but the US players suffer. Now I realize that many will multi table on multiple sites and that is a way of doing it. 

here again, it would be good to see the article that will give some indicators of values of each schedule and pull in the ABI model on Bankroll management. I think it would be so valuable to see where that falls in.

I don't mind pulling some data together and see how it would form up. Like put it up and then have the BRM knits go at it and see if we can come up with a good MTT model. I think it would be invaluable.

The problem with this is that it's such an ill-defined area where there are no real hard and fast rules that the only advice anyone can give is really general. Your BRM should be dependent to some extent on your ROI in each game, and you can't know that without a big sample – an experienced player could estimate it, but not without in-depth knowledge of your game. Additionally, nobody can possibly be familiar with all the games offered on every site, so any article that does get published on the subject will be specific to the sites the majority of people are playing on, because it takes knowledge about the average field strength of any given tournament to decide on whether it's a good value tournament.

The short version of BRM advice is that if you have a limited bankroll or volume restrictions, anything like that, just play SNGs. The variance in larger field MTTs is so crazy that you can never really prevent yourself from going busto if you're exclusively playing those games. If you only have $300, play SNGs and build up to like $1k, then you'll have more options.