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[QUOTE="Rational Madman, post: 3749575, member: 227817"]
Your tournament stake level should be about thirty times LESS whatever your cash game buy-in is.

Where did I pull this number from?

On average, and I am a VERY efficient cash game player, if I take a purely average sitting [U]OF THE TIME IT TAKES TO FINISH A TOURNAMENT IN THE SAME TIME[/U] I am leaving the table with more than one thirtieth of what I walked in with but less than double that (and tournament buy-ins tend to double per stake up).

So, to guarantee I am still earning cash even if I go to a donkament, I will hit a tourney that, if I lose, isn't negating the profit of the cash games. This is actually helpful in some ways because you can't make the same amount as a first place tournament win in that amount of time as you could in a cash game.

So I am not totally against some tournaments, they are after all more intense and thrilling to play than cash games but if you are serious about making money in poker, you must be playing at a much more babyish buy-in level with tournaments than in cash games. This will ensure overall profit and keep you happy as a rational player of the game.
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