Hello,

I have recently done some training to improve my game and am looking at doing some online poker in the future, mostly for fun but also to possibly make some sweet $$$.

I would deposit around 1000$ on pokerstars and plan on playing mostly MTTs (Or should I play some SnGs aswell to reduce varience?). From the research I have done on bankroll mangement I have found many diffrent answers for MTTs from 50-1000BI.

Would for someone that wouldnt mind losing the money, but wont be redepositing if this would happen. A BRM strategy of never buying in above 1% of your bankroll on a tourney be a good BRM? So with 1000$ I would play 0-10$ tourneys. (Likely mostly tourneys close to 10$). If i drop down to 800 it would be 0-8 etc.

I think i will be playing mostly large field MTTs.

Would this be okay or to aggresive?

If you are playing for fun then just pick tournaments that you can take seriously. That's a weird statement, yes, but it's very difficult to grind out the hours it takes when the payout doesn't put much of a dent into your bank roll.

After my many years of 1/2 live cash play I just know that I could never survive playing .01/.02 online seriously without a drastic change of mindset.

I think you pretty much want to be cashing in on 10-15% of your entries to feel 'secure' with the skill level of that type of tournament. There are other threads that discuss 'cashing' v 'winning' tournament approaches and the styles of play you need to use to achieve those different goals. 'Cashing' Pros need a much higher percentage in order to stay afloat, but 'winning' Pros (where it's FT or bust) opt to play more aggressively since their payouts are much bigger.

Cash Players typically want at least 30, if not 40-50 BI in their bankroll, so to have 100 BI in a tournament BR, where cashing is 'much' less likely sounds fine to me. But again, to me, it comes down to your mental state more than your BR when you truly aren't playing for profit or some other longevity goal. GL

If you don't want to re-deposit as stated 100 BI's isn't really that much for MTT's although as you also said if drop below $800 you will drop stakes and this type of move is a good plan.

Starting around $10 could be good if things go well in the first 50 plus tournaments but the problem is that small buy-in MTTs often have really large fields, and pretty high rake, and this means very long bad runs happen often. Run well at the start and it all seems easy, run bad and it doesn't!

In large field MTT's 500+ buy-in down-swings aren't uncommon, even for decent players, and so I personally would recommend starting lower than $10, perhaps the $2 to $5 range. If you start off on a heater you can up your buyin range, if the opposite happens you won't have lost that much and so can just take care of the remaining BR you have. After a while if you have increased a little you could add in playing a few higher ones. Some people don't mind playing a wide range of buy-ins adjust BR management to suit yourself - just remember that playing high buy-ins can drop your BR very quickly.

Playing SnG Mtts is also a good way to learn and playing field sizes like 45's can allow you to develop some decent FT icm knowledge. Learn how to adjust to your own and others stack sizes and do a lot of work with one of the Icm tools.