When To Move Up?

[Girazze]

Newbie player here needing some advice. I started playing real money on Party about 3 weeks ago. I'm playing the single table tourneys for $5+1 and doing fairly well. My account has increased from $200 to $250. If I continue to progress and my BR increases, when would I make the move up to the $10+1 tables and beyond? Will I see a difference in the player caliber moving from $5+1 to $10+1 to $20+2.....and so on? If so, where will this noticeable increase in player caliber be seen? All advice appreciated!

[talkinghead]

You will notice the player calibre goes up slightly, but not significantly till you reach $50+$5 (even then it's not too hot, so don't worry about that)

You should be playing $10+$1 now, the reason being your entrance fee is 10% of your buy-in. This is compared to 20% of your buy-in at the $5+$1 level. This may seem insignificant (after all, it's only a dollar) but it's not. Everything is relative and at those extreemly low limits the extra entrance fee will impact your results. $250 is a fine amount to pop the $10+$1 tourneys for a bit, when your roll reaches about $600 and you've also played at least 50 of these $10's I recommend moving to $30 (moving back down if falls below $300)

Good luck, perpetually evaluate your game and have fun

[heyrocker]

I have taken a pretty conservative approach and set my moveup limit at 30 buyins (including fee!) So I moved from $10 + 1 to $20 + 2 when I had $700. I also put in stopgaps at which point I dropped back to the previous level. For instance, in this example I decided that if I hit $550 it was back to $10. This is almost certainly more conservative than necessary, but it made me rest easy.

I agree with the other poster who said you won't see significant difference in the higher levels until $50. At $30 you'll see people starting to tighten up, but not a lot.

[BradleyT]

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$250 is a fine amount to pop the $10+$1 tourneys for a bit, when your roll reaches about $600 and you've also played at least 50 of these $10's I recommend moving to $30 (moving back down if falls below $300)

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Don't expect to be at $600 after 50 $10 SnG's like this poster implies. That'd be like a 90% ROI....

[Girazze]

Hey Bradley, it sounded good to me! /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Girazze]

Sounds like a great place to start......thanks for info!