if your local game is a $2-$5 nolimit game with a min buyin of $50 and a max of $200 and you wanted to start a bankroll so you could play on a regular basis what would you start your bankroll at?
I believe you would want 20 Max buy-ins, but I am not sure. I am guessing you would want to start your bankroll off at $4,000 If you wanted to be a regular at this local game.
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Is that serious AG??? I could have sworn he can easily go much less, then again, I'm a weak tournament/SNG player, why would I know anything about the rings.
Conventional wisdom suggests a 100 bb bankroll. Thats $500. It is a bit odd to see a $2-$5 NL game with a $200 max buy-in. $200 would usually cover $1-$2 NL games.
100bbs? You need 300 big BETS for limit (= 600 bbs), and more for NL, although it is usually expressed in terms of max buy-ins, not big blinds. In this case, to play professionally you would probably want at least 50 buy ins ($10,000). The OP didn't say he wanted to go pro, only to play regularly, so realistically $5k is probably sufficient.
$20k is 100 buy-ins, so it's only a slight exaggeration.
I think you are not right here AG.
I won't claim correctness, but when talking about $100 max games, they are usually referring to the buyin being $100 max, and the games are usually $.50/$1 ring games.
For any single game at those stakes it would be wise to have the max ($200 in this case, $500 normally) to start the game. For a continuing effort (week in week out) a much larger bankroll would be best. Perhaps I misunderstood the OP.
On the other hand, if we knew if this question was for that one game, alone or if the question referred to buying in regularly my answer might be different.
So, 50 buy-ins give or take (100 if you are a risk adverse nit like me). You can probably do it on 20 buy-ins if it's not on a professional level and your only source of income.