AllinIgor
Rock Star
Silver Level
Gentlemen, some beginners have a huge problem with bankroll management, perhaps many players have, not only beginners as I quoted. That really is a big problem. Lately I've heard a report from a friend who made a $50 deposit in a certain poker room.
He visited some forums, read some articles and felt ready to start playing.
He opened an NL hold'em 0.01/0.02 cash game table and spent a few hours playing by that limit, however, he found it a waste of time to stay for more than 2 hours at a table to win $2.
So he went to try to play MTT tournaments of values of $1.10/2.20 played around 6 to 8 tournaments, and never came close to ITM, then went on to play Sit&Go of 0.25/0.50, in which he got a third place, however he still found very little, spending many hours playing to win so "little".
To finish, he started playing cash game $0.25/0.50 with the $30 he had left, soon in the first hands came AK and he increased to 2.50 and the opponent paid. Flop: Q2J, the villain bet $10 and he paid. On the turn came the T completing his sequel, and the villain bet $22, and he went all in. On the river hit another Q completing the full house for the villain and he lost all his bankroll.
What is the moral of the story in your opinion?
In my humble opinion we should draw several lessons from this story I have told you:
If we have a small bankroll, we have to be patient in playing the limits that are appropriate to this bankroll, not in a hurry to push down the boundaries. Poker requires study, discipline, and having above all emotional control.
In your opinion, what is needed to have good bankroll management, and beyond what I quoted, what else would you say about the post?
First of all thanks for the comments, until after!
He visited some forums, read some articles and felt ready to start playing.
He opened an NL hold'em 0.01/0.02 cash game table and spent a few hours playing by that limit, however, he found it a waste of time to stay for more than 2 hours at a table to win $2.
So he went to try to play MTT tournaments of values of $1.10/2.20 played around 6 to 8 tournaments, and never came close to ITM, then went on to play Sit&Go of 0.25/0.50, in which he got a third place, however he still found very little, spending many hours playing to win so "little".
To finish, he started playing cash game $0.25/0.50 with the $30 he had left, soon in the first hands came AK and he increased to 2.50 and the opponent paid. Flop: Q2J, the villain bet $10 and he paid. On the turn came the T completing his sequel, and the villain bet $22, and he went all in. On the river hit another Q completing the full house for the villain and he lost all his bankroll.
What is the moral of the story in your opinion?
In my humble opinion we should draw several lessons from this story I have told you:
If we have a small bankroll, we have to be patient in playing the limits that are appropriate to this bankroll, not in a hurry to push down the boundaries. Poker requires study, discipline, and having above all emotional control.
In your opinion, what is needed to have good bankroll management, and beyond what I quoted, what else would you say about the post?
First of all thanks for the comments, until after!