We have an extend tournaments schedule so I recommend you both of the options either to a) Have to find timeslots that have good numbers of tournies running and when you find those tourneys ask your wife to leave you alone lol. Let me show you some of the great options you have for today for less than $20:

- Our Fun Fridays got everything what you want:

*5 different Playpen tourneys which are time-based tournaments that just take an hour to play and your chips are converted to cash as soon as it finished Buy in: $10+$0.50

*$10,000 GTD for $10+$0.50

*$1,000 GTD Final Table Experience where players receive a 1,000,000 chip starting stack! Only 60 minutes of late registration for only $20+$2

*$1,000 GTD 6 Max for $5+$0.50

*$400 GTD - PLO MegaStackTurbo for only $2+$0.20

These are added tournaments to our regular friday schedule

To check more information about this cool tourneys click here

I also forgot to mention that Americas Cardroom is the most trusted US website with higher GTD than any other US facing site, we got BitCoin deposits and cashout  and a great traffic!

You can check our latest promotions here, our hottest promo is The High Five with $942,000 on GTD prize pools with a main event of $420,000 GTD, with buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to $530 with multitude of satellites for each major event.

Jackpots games are the best option for Bankroll management, where else can you turn $2 into minimum guarantee of $500 and a maximum of $3,750 if you win!?, 1 & 2 it's very easy to win 2/3 games, you actually see $8 and $12 games pretty often, all this for only $2. However we got different stakes from $2 to $40.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you need any help or assistance.

Male. 44, Illinois,married, 5 year old daughter, been doing IT for near 30 years.  Struggle with Work-Life balance so poker is a contention point with wife.

Live poker I'm +EV by a decent amount, but my options are very limited and the rake eats up my edge.

Online I do alright on Bovada and recently starting messing with ACR, but haven't been able to focus when I play there and can't seem to play at a time when there's decent tournies (i.e. #'s) running.

So my challenges are:

1) Where to play?  

A) Bovada?  

B) ACR?  

C) Somewhere else?

2) When to play?  

A) Have to find timeslots that have good numbers of tournies running

B) have to convince wife to leave me alone in the timeslots

3) Bankroll management -  as this isn't my profession, BRM will be vastly different than what it would be for someone who relies on poker income for their livelihood.  However, I do want to be able to draw on my winnings for non-essential items.

A) figure out average buy-in for the time slots I can actually play.

B) Initial bankroll of 30-40 buy-ins and if I go broke, review & reassess?

4) Make sure I also have time dedicated to continue poker education.

I live in CST.  

Will target around $20 buy-ins (give or take).

If anyone is in a similar siutation with family, I'm open to suggestions for times.  May one night a week and Sundays?