Maybe start by making yourself familiar with variance in poker tournaments. This free tool is good for studying.
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The difficulty comes when in that tournament you play versus 3000 players, you have to invest more $$ to play versus shorter fields, short field = more chances to win, less opponents to defeat! get out those cheap tournaments as soon as you can.
Variance at in larger micro MTT's is as crazy and wild as variance in freerolls. You could and can easily go months without ever even final tabling a freeroll or a micro stakes MTT and that's even if you're a long time winning player. Source my self and real life experience.
My advice would be to either find some smaller field micro MTT's or deposit $50 and start at 2nl cash(variance isn't as terrible here depending on volume) and the player pool is still pretty soft. Once you get $150 move up to 5nl it doesn't play much different then 2nl. By now you should at least be able to double table. Once you get too $500 now you can move up too playing 10nl during weekdays and $5 smaller field MTT's on the weekends and taking shots at larger field $5 MTT's. Depending on the amount of volume you can play you can and could have $500 within 6 months or so. Where as in 6 months of freerolls and larger field MTT's you might never even see a single final table. Think about what is a better use of your time........
With that said this all assumes you're even a winning player. 85%-90% of poker players are losing players long term.
Cheers!!!
My advice would be to either find some smaller field micro MTT's or deposit $50 and start at 2nl cash(variance isn't as terrible here depending on volume) and the player pool is still pretty soft. Once you get $150 move up to 5nl it doesn't play much different then 2nl. By now you should at least be able to double table. Once you get too $500 now you can move up too playing 10nl during weekdays and $5 smaller field MTT's on the weekends and taking shots at larger field $5 MTT's. Depending on the amount of volume you can play you can and could have $500 within 6 months or so. Where as in 6 months of freerolls and larger field MTT's you might never even see a single final table. Think about what is a better use of your time........
With that said this all assumes you're even a winning player. 85%-90% of poker players are losing players long term.
Cheers!!!
Sometimes learning more makes you overthink every decision. I think the best thing is to review a few important hands after each session and check if you made the right decisions, instead of judging your game by the results. If you keep making good decisions, the results will eventually come, but you also need to be open to finding mistakes and improving.Guilherme 23232 said: