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Bankroll
Dear sky viewer players. i just wanted as many opinions as possible. i think im a good standard player. however i do not have a large bankroll and find my self risking my whole bankroll in play at any 1 time multitableing. my bankroll is £30 and i was woundering what levels and games i should be playing. sky poker presenters would like your opinions too if thats ok. yesterday i had AA on 2 tables and both hands lost and i went broke. before i resume playing again i would like opinions of as many people as possible. Many thanks Anthony x
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I'd say for £30 i'd play play 2p/4p cash, maybe multitabling four at once if comfortable for you to do so with maybe £3 on each table.
If you're not running well on a table close it down and open another.
Bankroll management is one of those key skills and there are some differing views on how to best go from a small roll to a big one. I'd go for something like the following:
If a cash game player...
Play a level where you have 20 x max buy-in. So if you're playing 2/4p, that's 20 x £4, so £80. Yes, I know your roll is £30 at the moment, but this is what I'd consider a sound amount to tackle the 2/4p games. They can be pretty swingy and you want to make sure you'd have enough bullets for it, so to speak. That makes the following more appealing until you get to the £80 mark....
Sit and gos and Double Your Moneys...
Double Your Money sit and gos are a bit of an acquired taste but they can offer a cheap way of getting a few quid together. They're easier to cash obviously than a 6-max or 10-handed sit and go, although DYMs require a different approach.
I'd personally say try your hand at 10-max, get used to all the key skills you'll need (position, bet sizing, playing short-handed and heads-up, etc) and a solid game should get you on your way. Ask for some advice on hands in The Poker Clinic too - always good bouncing ideas around, in my opinion.
Sit and gos begins from 30p upwards and I'd have a roll of 20 buy-ins for those if I am 1-tabling, 30 buy-ins for 2 tabling (just to accomodate for the swings a bit more, basically). So with £30, I'd either one or two table the £1+10p SNGs.
Multitable tournaments
I'd actually only try these once you start closing out some sit and gos. All of the money in MTTs is at the top end of the payouts, so if you can't handle short-handed play too well you're rarely going to get all the cheese. The pay days become less frequent too just because you have so many more bullets to dodge in an MTT vs an STT.
That said, you could try your hand at some of the freerolls or Vegas Points Fest tourneys that are on at the moment as a way of testing the water.
Hope that helps and keep asking questions!
Dave
thankyou for thaat post
Was it just on one table ?
As for wandering to the cash tables, just stick with one discipline for a while until you start seeing some positive sessions go in the book. Once you've got that down, you can take some well-founded confidence to the table and move across to some of the other disciplines.
£10 in cash 2-3 tables. where do i find the blogs? ty all 4 the advice
Irishrovers blogs are great reading you'll find them in the community next to the forum tab or here https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/community/blogs and click on Rovers Return (on investment)
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Any question relating to detail in said blogs ,
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Denis
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