have 100 bucks, need help gtting started
 

I have 100 bucks and am new to onlinepoker. I have played some freerolls and some play money stt's to get a feel for it and the pace. What is the best way to invest my 100 dollars online. I have played NL almost exclusively in my poker career and have made some good money playing live poker and i really would like to try my luck at online stt's. what site should i use what stakes should i play at, etc. i know it will be awhile with 100 bucks before i really start making my time worthwhile but i would like a little advice getting started.

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$5 SNG's, or the smallest NL table you can find. Do not move up for a while.

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yeah, i would highly recommend stts. start at the 5s and like the guy above said, take your time. it will take a lot of patience in both the actual games and in your general bankroll buildup.

read the 1 table tournaments forum as much as possible because the strategy necessary is so much different than any other type of holdem, imo.

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My fist question would be how much are you net up from your live play? You should have a seperate set of books and probably more than $100 to invest from prior winnings.

That said if you're determined to invest no more than $100 I actually suggest learning limit hold-em or seven card stud and playing 25/50 cent hold em or baby stud.

I actually started at Paradise Poker a few years ago playing the no-ante 25 cent bring in seven stud game. After a lot of patience I moved over to hold em, gradually moved up limit and have made over $30K.

If no-limit is your thing I'd opt for the $25 NL cash games on the Party skins. This is risky as you're putting down 25% or your bankroll on the line but you'll have a good chance if you're patient.

Good luck!

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1. Find a site that has a good deposit bonus, such as party poker or one of their skins...you might even want to sign up for rakeback if you plan on playing a good amount. Stretch that 100 bucks as far as it goes.

2. Playing 5 stt's with a 100 bankroll is ok, as it gives you a little room for variance. You might even want to play lower buy in stt's at first, such as 1-3 dollar buys ins till you get the hang of online play.

3. As for NL cash games, i'd start out as low as possible.It's better to do that and build your bankroll slowly than to blow your money playing out of your roll.

gl.

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http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/po...mp;Board=begin

There are some wonderful posts in the beginners forum on building and managing bankrolls.

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I'm thinking you might have too small a roll for $5 SNG. I think the standard roll for SNG is 50-100 entries for the limit you want to play. If I was you I'd look into some of the sites that offer $.75-$2 SNGs, Party/Empire does not have SNGs below $5. royal vegas comes to mind they have SNGs as low as $.75 and a deposit bonus. The SNGs there are pretty loose with the low buy-in. check out www.bonuswhores.com for a listing of what games, bonuses and a general idea of the difficulty of the games. You will also want to signup to sites using a rake back service, they don't always pay on STT/MTT, but once you open an account at a poker site you can't set it up later. Also I have been checking out the freerolls on bonus whores and placed a few times ITM(in the money), free money and play against 2k+ people will help you hone your skills and it's free. I think in the SNG Faq there is a link to a free SNG stat analysis program, this can tell you how good you are really doing over all on SNGs and the price is right.

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If you play STT's, don't play on Party or one of it's skins. Play on a site that has 10% rake for the $5 SNGs such as Stars or PokerRoom.com.

As for the NL25 games, I'm not a huge fan of playing those with a $100 roll. That's only 4 buy-ins and it's not beyond reason that a run of negative variance could hit you and wipe you out, even if you are playing very well.

I'd say limit ring or low buy-in STTs would be the way to go for now.

Edit: Probably intuitive, but whichever game you decide to play at first, read and post hands on the appropriate forum on 2+2. This site is probaby more useful than you realize.

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When I started I only had $20. I used Blue Square or one of the other skins on that network. They have very low limit ring games and tournaments and a low rake. Also if you like tournaments you get 2000 chips to start with.

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Never play a $5 sit-and-go. The rake will eat your soul. Nobody will be able to hear you scream.

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Read small stakes hold'em by David Skylanski (SP?). A lot of no Limit players, even experienced ones, have trouble with micro/small stakes Hold' em. Also Internet Hold Em is another good book. Start out at .50/1 after reading these books. Advance after winning 100BB in each respective game.

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Read small stakes hold'em by David Skylanski (SP?). A lot of no Limit players, even experienced ones, have trouble with micro/small stakes Hold' em. Also Internet Hold Em is another good book. Start out at .50/1 after reading these books. Advance after winning 100BB in each respective game.

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No, no, no. SSHE is by Ed Miller. Do not play .50/1 limit until you have at least 300BB ($300) for that game and do not move up until you have 300BB for the next level. You should be playing .10/.25 limit or 10NL (maybe even 5NL) if you want to start out playing cash games.

If you want to play STT's, check out the 1-table tournaments forum. Some of the most talented STT players in the world are there.

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SAVE MORE MONEY...

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Well, I think that while it's not hard to lose your first $100 right away (as I did), if you can find a good deposit bonus you can get a lot for your money. Empire offers 100% reloads sometimes, and while you have to play 1000 hands, it wouldn't be hard to clear even with some negative varience. Many Cryptologic sites ofter nice $50 bonuses for 250-300 hands, or 5 hours per month...you must play $1/$2 limit for it though which is obviously a little risky for a $100 bankroll, however if you're a good player you should have no problem with them and the bonuses take a lot of the risk out of it. Good luck!

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Homer's "Building a Bankroll" post

That oughta about cover it.

FWIW, I started out with a $20 deposit, playing .02/.04 LHE on Pacific. That was just over a year ago; between all the sites I have money on, I'm properly bankrolled for 10/20 now. If I hadn't made any cashouts over that year, it'd be 30/60. So yeah, it's very doable with a $100 starting 'roll.

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what advice do you need, if you can think logically. it's just poker but on the monitor, and people are cheating.

play low antes.

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I agree that you should play SnGs with a low buy in. However I think that you should start by spending 25 $ to buy the first Dan harrington book and read it Buy the next one as soon as you start winning.

Start playing at pacific the game is very soft and the if you play 5 $ SnGs you pay 0.5 $ rake and not 1 $ as you do at paradise.

The software sucks at pacific but so does the opponants.

Good luck

sunek

A last remark: forget everything about clearing bonuses - it allmost killed me when I started playing online. Keep playing the freerolls - it is often good practice.

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I agree that you should play SnGs with a low buy in. However I think that you should start by spending 25 $ to buy the first Dan harrington book and read it Buy the next one as soon as you start winning.

Start playing at pacific the game is very soft and the if you play 5 $ SnGs you pay 0.5 $ rake and not 1 $ as you do at paradise.

The software sucks at pacific but so does the opponants.

Good luck

sunek

A last remark: forget everything about clearing bonuses - it allmost killed me when I started playing online. Keep playing the freerolls - it is often good practice.

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Youre last comment is horribly flawed. How can you attribute you losing to clearing bonuses? Does your play change from a 7X to a 10-15X bonus. It shouldn't. Thats just retarded.

PS Pacific sux, their support sux, their bonus sux, yes their players suck too, but I know that the WEEK (and yes it really is a week) wait on a cashout is not worth it when you could be playing on that money, and winning more.

First forget everything about these SnG ideas. Your largely under rolled for that, plus SnG's will break you in the long run if you dont know about the advanced skills discussed in the STT forum.

Books..well whatever but most of everything you can find in there is on here if you search long enough. I didnt learn from a book I learned from experience and this site. If you do buy books dont buy anything that isnt 2+2.

You need to play as close to .05/.10, (.10/20 and .25/.50 may be ok too if you know what you are doing) Limit Hold'em as you can find. and I still dont think this is enough, but every new player ends up playing under-rolled when starting out. You kinda have to until you have about 300$, or deal with a very slow start. Start by playing at The Casino net site that's in the bonus section. you can clear a 100$ bonus playing .05/.10 or .10/.20 software sux, but what do you expect. Next forget about rakeback, this is just retared and a waste of time until you start playing over 2/4 and even then I would make more money from bonuses than the same kind of player, same limits ....playing for rakeback.
once you'er in the 3/6 5/10 range then rakeback is more profitable.
Make bonuswhores your home page. sign up for he newsletter. Forget about freerolls as these are really a waste of time unless its like a prima 1K gauranteed...Speaking of prima you should look into all of those sites once you get to the .25/50 and .50/1 games. I even hear that they have "beginner" .05/.10 games now too.

Don't live by the 300BB rule as it is way overrated. It's too little. 200BB swings happen, losing 2/3 of your bankroll shouldnt.
Learn 6-max to avoid burnout, plus this is an exellent way to clear bonuses.
IMPORTANT!!!
DO NOT SIGN UP AT ANY SITE THAT YOU CANNOT TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THEIR SIGN UP BONUS.
Stop re-read that then go on. in 6 mo you'll know why.

Bonuses are your bread and butter right now. You are lucky that you are starting now when there are so many cardrooms/skins to choose from that all want to give you a little something to play there.

Its really not hard. I played only about an hour a day and got a 50$ investment into 1K in 60 days, but you have to knwo what you are doing or you will take a inevitable and harsh downswing.

Good luck man, PM me if you want some more bonus advice without all this poo to sift through.

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poker stars

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I like pokerstars the best.
With your TINY, TINY, TINY bankroll, play no higher than .05/.10 NL games. If you want to be macho and play higher limits then I would wager you will lose you $100 within 2-weeks. Realize with your limited experience you may lose that $100 and need to reload.

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Pokerstars have SNG with 1,50+0,25$ buyin, 18 people and top 4 pays. This is great enough to build your starting bankroll and you can afford quite a few of those. I played them 4 at one and usually won 1 out of 4 and placed in the money in at least 1 of the other 3 which put me at around +10$ for each 4 sng's. Play 50 a day and that's a sweet 125$ there. Didn't take long for me to move up to 5$ SNG [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]