I know it is easy to say "move up stakes" when you don't have the roll, but speaking from personal experience I just punt away $$$ if I play at micro stakes. Conversely, when I am playing a T which is too expensive for my roll BR wise, I seize up and always try to limp in to the $. 

You need to find a middle ground. 

Having said this, if you are newish to tournaments then it's probably best to stick to v small stakes. Then again, if you have no motivation whilst playing, you are unlikely to be learning a lot. It's a hard call...I can give you one pointer...the 27-180 man $15 turbos on PStars are excellent MTT sit n go's. They are always firing up, only take an hour or so to run, and because they normally run at 80 players max, your roll of $800 is almost adequate, so long as you are a winning sit n'go'er. 

And finally, 

Daveouk said:

" I dont know if this is a pro or a con but sometimes I have made hero calls based on a plays nationality "[Image Can Not Be Found]

Gee, not sure what happened to the emoji there...but I think this is probably a "con".

Pro's 

- Had a couple of FT's, and binked one but it was a very small field and small prize pool.

- The uni section is pretty cool and some videos are actually entertaining "sticking it to the man" was probably the best video so far.

- Not in profit but that was expected

- Learnt alot from playing and understanding some basic spots which you wouldn't see in a cash game

- Absolute abuser of button pressure but this has also back fired and I look like pretty stupid and dont make the cash

Con's

- Didn't know how to play balanced when i was the big stack at the FT, had a few friends tune into the stream and they said I should have been more agro when we got down to 5 handed. At the same time they said I was hard to read.

- I think I put myself in awful spots sometimes or attempt to bluff the wrong person

- Motivation playing $1-$5 MTTs 

- Mite be punting of a stack to soon, I mite be taking to much of a risk to soon but then I have a mindset of I need chips to win and if i am the tightest player on the table where never getting any action unless we are crushed. Probably another balance issue.

- Some videos in the uni, the mic's quality makes me not want to watch the video

- High agro factor players, feels like I am getting destroyed by them.

- Making the big folds on the FTs eg, 10/5 nit goes all in for 15bbs and I cant fold AK and offcourse has the american airlines. It was a 4th v 5th flip on the FT so from that point I dont think I can fold AK..just a awful spot when you haven't seen the villian play a hand for the entire FT. 

Questions

Should you always just aim to beat the bubble? - I want to play for the bink and I cant do that with 10-15bbs. 

should I have a 4bet bluff range in the micros?

How do you keep motivated? I love the game but  I struggle after a long day to play another 4+hours of poker.

Sorry if this was a bit of ramble, I just had to vent 

There are lots of great series here to fix whichever leak you want to battle first, including some really good ICM stuff.  

As a fellow runner myself, I think there's a huge correlation between the two.  

Enjoy.

I am awful at these things but hears the intro – So im in my 30s from the UK and I am quite addicted to this game. Started playing a few years ago grinding 2nl and recently have been playing at 25nl and sometimes 50nl when the cash games have been good. I do not have a recent graph to show you guys because I played on sites which do not support PT or HM.

Why leave the cash games?

• Mostly the enjoyment factor
• Reg upon Reg the higher the limit, in cash games.
• I think in the time it takes me to break even or show any profit at 50nl, I would be decent a MTT’s/SNG’s

 Bankroll roughly $800, playing MTT’s from $1-5 and the odd $10. I have played a few MTT’s when cash grinding but never put in much time or effort. Also playing sng's to keep myself busy but currently struggling to find a schedule of tourneys due to work shift patterns.

Some results below on this link

My pocket fives profile, not much to look at

Goal

• I would just like to bink a MTT, not concerned about the cash prize just the bink.
• Make a poker MTT schedule which gets the volume in but I also go for runs. (Did my first 1/2 marathon this year)
• Keep this updated, to keep motivated and use the sites for some active learning.

The Dream

• Have a big year on the tables and go and squeeze one out on my desk at work (Quit my job).

My Plans

• Playing the monster series on PartyPoker next week cant wait for that and may have to move the bankroll across a couple of sites.
• Train for the next marathon

My leaks

- I go with my hand to early in a MTT, for example flop bottom set and even though theres a straight out there, bigger sets. I do this because I think the MTT's are micro level I expect people are never folding over pairs and top pair etc.  I also have the mentality of you don't make many hands so when you do go with it.

- Not 100% sure on ICM yet

- Working out my range for calling based on events/situation. Sometimes I miss a key fact for example its a bounty mtt and my range should be wider due to the bountys. This is probably due to the amount of tables.

- Probably reg-ing to late so i am a push fold stack within 10 hands of sitting down

Pros

- I like playing deep 50bb+

- mental game is pretty solid, I do not tilt easily. If I do its just a hellmuth.  

- Understanding the bubble pressure

- I dont know if this is a pro or a con but sometimes I have made hero calls based on a plays nationality 😉 

Any advice is welcome, good luck at the tables.