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Sounds like the break from cash is proving beneficial and you've certainly done well to be doing this for a living for so long - I've always thought it must be difficult to motivate yourself being self-employed or working from home, but I guess paying the mortgage and some trips abroad is motivation enough!

I've got about 15k FTPs (small beer I know) - do you think the Turbo SNGs are the most efficient way to turn this into cash? Or maybe rat-hole a couple of 25nl tickets? My original plan was to use these for my first shot at 50nl, but I'm quickly going off that idea.

Originally Posted by The Bean Counter

I've got about 15k FTPs (small beer I know) - do you think the Turbo SNGs are the most efficient way to turn this into cash? Or maybe rat-hole a couple of 25nl tickets? My original plan was to use these for my first shot at 50nl, but I'm quickly going off that idea.

don't buy cash-game tickets that are worth less than at least 200bb for the games you want to play. You can't reload them, nor reload your stack from your roll at tables you bought into with a ring game ticket. You could perhaps buy a couple of $25 tickets and rathole 10nl, but i don't think this is a great idea vs the alternatives.

basically, you want to turn points into cash quickly. Your points will get you fourteen $5 sng tickets. Assuming you are breakeven and run as expected then you quickly turn these into $70 and you can move on with your life. Or you could use them to play a few $10-$30 buyin mtts and hope for material amounts of $$. Depends on your gamble.