SNG Strategy for building BR

Lots of people that start out playing Sit-n-Gos look for guides on how to play them, or they should. Sure, there are lots of people that don't read poker books or belong to poker sites or poker forums. They are doing themselves a disservice by not trying to learn from others that have played thousands of these types of events.

Over my playing career I have mainly played SNGs as a way to increase my bankroll and to make money. I have had a lot of success playing these. I was pretty successful when I started out playing these and then I became aware of a poker training site called PokerXfactor.com. I joined this site in the first month that they were up and operating and got in on the ground floor. I learned many things that had not even occurred to me, and as a result I learned the more correct way to play SNGs and of course, was even more succesful at them.

From time to time I would enter multi-table tournaments (MTTs) and would win a little here and there but for the most part the variance associated with these would tend to suck money out of my bankroll (BR), although, I did have a nice run on Ultimate Bet (UB) coming in 3rd two days in a row in a $30 buy-in tourney on there for a nice score. And then I would also play what they call double shootouts (DS) which are SNG tournaments where you have to win your first table then all the winners are seated at another table and then usually the top two or just top one win a seat in a bigger buy-in tournament usually $215 or $530, these had some variance to them as well. Even though I did win a few of these, they are a negative impact on my BR.

I am going to try and resist the urge to play any of these types of things until I achieve my BR goal, which would be $5,000. When I get to the magical $10k BR I will open up and play some other tourneys that I believe will be highly profitable to me, as they have been in the past, but my BR just doesn't support playing them regularly. These would include the $100 buy-in tourneys, which have been very nice to me in the past. Better competition is always a plus for my style of play.

It will be a steady diet of SNGs for at least the next 3 months. I am going to try and achieve a 10% per week increase in my BR. That is my goal and I feel it is attainable.