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sickthis
Rock Star
Silver Level
What about bankroll management don’t you understand? A cash buyin is how much you start with at the table. Buyins for tournaments is the cost to enter the tournament.
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blix177
Visionary
Silver Level
A. Bankroll management only make sense if you are making money and not losing money. No bankroll management can over come a negative ROI. If you lose money, you will eventually go broke and need to reload.
B. If you do make money, then you need to prevent yourself going broke due to something call "variance." You know those bad beats we get, well sometimes we get many of them for long stretches. But if you don't have the money to ride out the bad times, you will eventually hit 0.
C. The math says you want 100 buy in at least. Because even the pros can lose 50 buy ins of 100BB. If you are playing MTT you might want a even bigger range 200 buy in.
Good Luck
B. If you do make money, then you need to prevent yourself going broke due to something call "variance." You know those bad beats we get, well sometimes we get many of them for long stretches. But if you don't have the money to ride out the bad times, you will eventually hit 0.
C. The math says you want 100 buy in at least. Because even the pros can lose 50 buy ins of 100BB. If you are playing MTT you might want a even bigger range 200 buy in.
Good Luck
hugh blair
Legend
Bronze Level
Many people are very patient never get tilted and leave all their roll on poker sites and do exactly what blix177 said good advice by him I agree if you got serious discipline.
But will be honest as I have tilted before going from playing freerolls and $20 tournaments calmly to suddenly after few beats playing $50,$100,$250,$500 and even $1000 buy ins chasing a break even or slight profit in a session when I left large rolls online in the past with disastrous consequences.
These days if have a decent 4 digit roll for example set aside for poker I try to keep it off the poker site feed smaller rolls into the at risk blender reload and withdraw regularly take a few shots when fresh feeling calm and relaxed at the higher stakes make it impossible to have a 2k or 5k downswing in just one session.
Leaving smaller rolls on poker sites instead of big ones freerolls mentally are easier to play and keeps you focused and hungry and concentrated in the micros and midstakes.
Loose play and bad BRM buy in decisions with big rolls and profits making mistakes can be a serious leak too in a players game that I try to control by withdrawing most of it instead.
Poker sites regularly hit zero for me due to my aggressive withdrawal strategy but I never hit zero with my bankroll reserves ready to deposit if this makes sense.
But will be honest as I have tilted before going from playing freerolls and $20 tournaments calmly to suddenly after few beats playing $50,$100,$250,$500 and even $1000 buy ins chasing a break even or slight profit in a session when I left large rolls online in the past with disastrous consequences.
These days if have a decent 4 digit roll for example set aside for poker I try to keep it off the poker site feed smaller rolls into the at risk blender reload and withdraw regularly take a few shots when fresh feeling calm and relaxed at the higher stakes make it impossible to have a 2k or 5k downswing in just one session.
Leaving smaller rolls on poker sites instead of big ones freerolls mentally are easier to play and keeps you focused and hungry and concentrated in the micros and midstakes.
Loose play and bad BRM buy in decisions with big rolls and profits making mistakes can be a serious leak too in a players game that I try to control by withdrawing most of it instead.
Poker sites regularly hit zero for me due to my aggressive withdrawal strategy but I never hit zero with my bankroll reserves ready to deposit if this makes sense.
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veltins
Legend
Loyaler
Many people are very patient never get tilted and leave all their roll on poker sites and do exactly what blix177 said good advice by him I agree if you got serious discipline.
But will be honest as I have tilted before going from playing freerolls and $20 tournaments calmly to suddenly after few beats playing $50,$100,$250,$500 and even $1000 buy ins chasing a break even or slight profit in a session when I left large rolls online in the past with disastrous consequences.
These days if have a decent 4 digit roll for example set aside for poker I try to keep it off the poker site feed smaller rolls into the at risk blender reload and withdraw regularly take a few shots when fresh feeling calm and relaxed at the higher stakes make it impossible to have a 2k or 5k downswing in just one session.
Leaving smaller rolls on poker sites instead of big ones freerolls mentally are easier to play and keeps you focused and hungry and concentrated in the micros and midstakes.
Loose play and bad BRM buy in decisions with big rolls and profits making mistakes can be a serious leak too in a players game that I try to control by withdrawing most of it instead.
Poker sites regularly hit zero for me due to my aggressive withdrawal strategy but I never hit zero with my bankroll reserves ready to deposit if this makes sense.
Perfect reply. keep as little as possible at poker sites which you can afford to lose anytime. Just withdraw as much as possible. Gl