Cheap MTT's

[kevark]

Hi,

Recently I got into MTT. I found many of the cheap MTT buy-in's appealing such as the 1 or 2 dollar ones that are on PartyPoker and Pokerstars where you can 1000x your buyin. I played on a couple of them and lost, are they really worth the trouble? or should I go into a little more expensive MTT's.

[wiseheart]

Well, consider this, the average $1 PokerStars
MTT takes 5-6 Hours to finish, at least 4 hours,
to the final table, and 1st place usually only
offers $50-100, so even assuming you overcome
the odds, how do you value your time?

[Weatherhead03]

Depends really. If you have a smaller bank roll and winning one of those would be great for your bankroll then I dont see a problem at all. But as someone previously said, you only win about 50-100 bucks for more than a few hours work.

[kevark]

So what should i do?
should i just pratice on 5+.5 MTT becuase of my small bankroll or start with SnG's and move my way up the ladder?

[jgunnip]

Read some books, play different types of games. Go with what feels best and beatable.

[wiseheart]

Depends on your Skills, but I started with a
$5 bankroll on Stars and played MicroLimits
until I made it to $30 or so, and then I
started playing the $5 SnG while playing
a low limit table at the same time, that way
even if I busted in the SnG I could still
recover the money from the ring table. Ring
table skills help a lot in tourneys, so start
with the .5/.10 cent tables if your at Stars,
with any skill you can make a $2-4/hour there
and build your bankroll, and if your worried
about getting schooled, play Omaha 8 instead
of Hold em because you will almost always be
playing with the nuts.

Just my advice, Im sure others have different ideas
as well. Oh, and I waited till I had $100 before I
started playing the $10 MTTs (while also playing a
$.5/1 of course)

[USCUNC]

Play the $5.50 sngo's mainly... and.. play the $3 rebuy for the $215 T$... a $3 rebuy for the $T will pay about 30 or so most 9pm games. Win a $215 and then continue playing sngo's.

U should still play a few cheap mtt's - for the experience.. but... don't waste time on too many of them

[Hotrod0823]

You can also try the 1.00 sngs that are 5 tables.

Faster than regular Low limit MTTs but play more like a MTT then a sng.

[wiseheart]

I forgot about the $1 +.20 at Stars, they
just created those. I played a couple, takes
about 2 hours to finish one, but pretty easy
to beat if you know what your doing, 1st place
pays $14, down to 7th which pays $2, field of
45, most of which are maniacal aggro.

[ptmusic]

If you want some cheap MTT experience but don't want to waste 5 hours, don't play the cheap tourneys at the huge sites like Party and Stars. Go to Interpoker, Absolute, Bodog - middle size places like that.

If you want to play cheap just to build a bankroll, there are much better ways than playing cheap MTT's. Go to www.bonuswhores.com and get to work!

-ptmusic