Two Bankrolls.

What are you thoughts having 2 separate rolls? 1 specifically for live and one for online.

I can spend 40 a week on poker, but I feel if I'm winning at 1 level instead of speeding things up and actually testing my patience im better off leaving my roll as is online and keep slowly building than cheating and boosting it up with non profits.


The other option is I could always play a tourney a week with this money online say a 20 or 30 dollar and just see if I can win big, that would help boost everything up especially a live roll... But live I know there are much weaker players according to the money as to online. I did turn 200 into 4000 with less knowledge and I know mistakes I did previous, So I feel I could do it again and keep it hmmm thoughts?

I don't know what you are asking.

Figure out a way to ask your question better.

Yea I'm not exactly what you are asking. Obviously you will need money in physical form if you intend playing live and also have money online. But I don't see why you should separate the two.
Obviously you can keep a log and see which format you are having more success in but I fail to see the point of making a distinction between the two?

How much are you likely to play live vs online. If live is going to be a relatively low proportion of your time, you could just treat it like taking a shot. Otoh, if you're playing mainly live, you should probably play at lower stakes online, in which case BRM is unlikely to be an issue assuming your rolled for your live level.

Some people ITT have low levels of reading comprehension.

Arjonius pretty much nailed it though, if you have a steady source of income outside of poker and don't play live all that often then BRM is not really needed as you can just "take a shot" every now and then.

If you plan on playing live every weekend and online 4-5 days a week, than yes, I would build two separate bankrolls. It really sounds like you don't have a bankroll at all and you don't play much since you want to use your $40 a week poker allowance on one online tournament which is pretty horrible BRM. Try $1-$2 buy in tournaments and build a bankroll off that.

From what your willing to spend per week, it's sounds like "taking a shot" regardless of whether it is live or on line.
If all I had was $40/week to spend on poker, I would take IPLAY's suggestion and take multiple shots at micro level MTT's and free rolls to try and build a big enough bankroll to fund live action at a casino since I don't think $40 will get you too far at live tables.
The casino nearest me is a minimum $100 buy in for holdem.

With $40 a week, I would play online and would prefer SnG over Tournaments
Play freeroll tournaments and aim to get in the money, even if its a few cents, the quality of players you get to play once you reach the top 5% of jumpers is quite good, give or take a few lucky ones who get there with their all in calls

Most of all, since you have decided that you can SPEND $40 a week, dont stress too much in building a bankroll, your already willing to spend the money

But if you would decide that you are able to invest a maximum of $40 in a week is things don't go your way, well then I wish you best of luck for your investment and BRM

I've been putting 40 aside a week to save up for a live session... Theres either 1/2 which is max buy-in 80 or 1/3 max buy-in 200...

I have had success with 1/3 in the past but I think its safer to stick to the lowest of lowest but theres only couple tables but 1/3 is the bulk of the tables.


I got $120 aside to have a run at Saturday night 80 buy-in table and just see if I can quietly double up and walk out.


I will now try and do those $1 tourneys online from my 1c2c profits to see if I can boost... If I fail live 1 or 2 times i'll then just boost my roll up 40 a week and try 4nl and see if I can feel comfortable for long periods of time since I know I'm up and down 2nl but I'm up so far with 20k+ hands by 50 dollars.


Reason why my bankrolls are low is because I have a family... Though I've been spending a lot of time reading/learning and getting in mass hands at 2nl... In the past I've done alright with 4nl and 6nl and also boosted up to 20nl which then I failed due to bad BRM... But since now I've learnt I've been too aggressive with BRM thanks to some of you guys online.

4nl 30buyins.

6nl 40buyins

10nl 50buyins ... and I guess i'll stick with 50 buy-ins.


Since the last time I did decent at the casino I've learnt now

*Pot control

*Playing less marginal hands at the blinds treat it like my EP. Nothing too fancy only odd occasion mix it up by 3betting light.

*Knowing how to play a lot of my hands better I guess and a lot more experience due to online.

*Hoping I'm a bit more mature as a player...

*Oh And how much I use to overvalue top pair top kicker ouch I lost a lot.


I watched Poker after dark, yet I don't think much of Lederer he did say something good in S06 E12 I think it was... He goes ppl can really learn quicker now how to play but lack the maturity as a poker player. I really relate to that and it'll take time to mature as I'm busy chipping away with leaks and issues that I face.


Anyways I know I'm annoying thread person sometimes but I thank everyone for their feedback,

Thanks Arjonius you really helped with that reply.


***Everytime I win live i'll boost my online with it***... Since live I remember was a lot easier and my reading abilities were amazing just my card playing was lacking and just unexperienced.

Max buy in is only 40BB's? O.O

Not sure how I would feel about that, is it basically a shove fest?

u don't get it... the table has min 40 max 80... unless I go to 1/3 which is 80-200 which id sit at for 200

true all in slug fests can be bad.. unless u get some awesome run

hmmm I was all keen on going live... but prolly better to invest online and just do 4nl. and play 1/3 when I've got enuff from profits to play live.. then I should tho a long way to go

Aces2w1n said:

u don't get it... the table has min 40 max 80... unless I go to 1/3 which is 80-200 which id sit at for 200

true all in slug fests can be bad.. unless u get some awesome run

hmmm I was all keen on going live... but prolly better to invest online and just do 4nl. and play 1/3 when I've got enuff from profits to play live.. then I should tho a long way to go

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BB is $2 and max buy in is $80, so max buy in is 40BB

I think I get it bud:bootyshak

lol yes but I didn't think u knew it was max buyin of 80

Aces2w1n said:

*Pot control

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What do you mean by this?

Cafeman said:

What do you mean by this?

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Lol kind of wonder about this myself. even though my only "live experience" has been pub league games I do know that people at casinos are pretty fishy. What I found transitioning to these league games was that all the times I opted to pot control lost me a lot of profit which I discovered when I found out people would call off three huge barrels with any top pair no matter the kicker and that often even two huge barrels would be called by any pair, even an under pair.

Cafeman said:

What do you mean by this?

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Instead of making every pot insanely high. We are checking a street with top pair top kicker especially with 2+ players in the hand instead of trying to go all in with this. So we don't have the pot insanely high