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Looking for some SNG/MTT guidance

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  1. Chipless Wonder Chipless Wonder is offline

    Westerville, OH
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    Jul 16th, 2008 (7/16/2008 11:30am)

    At the beginning of this year, I made a post about my intentions, but for some reason I'm unable to reply to that thread. I'll post the link and copy the text below:

    http://www.pocketfives.com/poker-for.../260156#260156

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    I'm relatively new to poker, and I've become totally addicted to tournaments. The more I've played, the more I find myself leaning toward 45 and 90 person SNG's. I seem to do my best in the $22 and $26 ones on Full Tilt.

    Anyway, I was hoping to get some advice on how to take my game to the next level in this area. When I look at my results on OPR, it seems pretty obvious that I should focus on the $26 games with 45 and 90 players. But I want to keep improving my game and challenging myself.

    So would I be better off sticking with what works, playing more of the same tournaments, while trying to improve my ITM and ROI numbers? Or should I move up to another buy-in level? Or would I better to stay at the same buy-in and try more of the games with bigger fields? Or maybe a combination of some of these ideas?

    Thanks in advance for any guidance!

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    Anyways, we're now halfway through 2008, and according to OPR I now have a 26% ITM and 38% ROI YTD. I'm only ~ $250 away from getting my shark on Sharkscope. So yes, this is actually my first brag post. :)

    http://officialpokerrankings.com/ful...1D397.html?t=8

    I've been following very closely to my bankroll management guidelines, and I've only started to increase my ABI as my bankroll grew. I was playing one or two tables at once, and now I'm doing four profitably. I've started to play larger fields, and just recently began getting into some of the bigger field MTT's.

    So where should I go from here, in order to keep moving in the same direction? Should I continue to add more tables slowly over time? Should I continue raising the buy-ins? Should I focus more on larger field sizes? Or should I leave everything alone?

    Any and all advice from those who've come up through the ranks would be appreciated.
     
  2. jtown1010 jtown1010 is offline

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    Jul 16th, 2008 (7/16/2008 11:32am) in reply to Chipless Wonder

    MORE TABLES More Tables!
  3. fish fish is offline

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    Jul 16th, 2008 (7/16/2008 11:38am) in reply to jtown1010

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
     
  4. Chipless Wonder Chipless Wonder is offline

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    Jul 16th, 2008 (7/16/2008 4:04pm) in reply to Chipless Wonder

    Here's what I'm doing now, and it seems to be working pretty well for me. First I start four tournaments at the same time. I play pretty aggressively in them all, trying to accumulate some chips. Usually within an hour or so, I'll have a lot of chips in one or two and be out of one or two. When the bubble gets close, I typically turn up the aggression again, buy now I can be more selective, since I'm down to two tables and can watch things more closely. Normally I'll bust out of one near the bubble, leaving only one tournament. But in this one, I'll often have some chips accumulated and go fairly deep. This results in my average ITM being ~ 25% when I play this way, and the single cash easily offsets the entry fees of all four games.

    Is this a decent approach? And how should I go about starting to try five or six or eventually more MTT tables?

    Thanks again for the guidance!
     
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