Playing within youre bankroll limits

[BrianSwa]

why I think its a decent post, you think everyone should have to play within their bankroll no matter what? You dont think the casual player should be allowed to take 1/4 of their bankroll into a game? I see no problem in this at all, please explain BB.

[Talking Poker]

Brian.... not to point out the obvious to you.... but in your hypothetical situation of someone putting $400 online and having another $400 ready to go if he loses it, his bankroll isn't $400. It's $800 (or whatever the number is he's willing to call "poker money").

[BrianSwa]

not saying he has $400 in reserve to play with. Ok lets put it this way a guy has a decent job and gets paid and sees hey I got a extra $400 I can put online. Ok so he does that now he has no extra money after this to play with but knows that he can deposit in 2 weeks if he has to. So he has $400 and only $400 to play with for 2 weeks, is it a sin to put $100 of that in 2/4?

[Talking Poker]

Yes, and he will go straight to hell for it.

Of course not. He can play 100/200 if he wants (assuming he can find a site that will let him sit with $400). It's just that the higher the limit he plays, the more likely he's going to bust.

Bankroll guidelines are for people that don't want to bust out. You pick a number and they give you a guideline of where you should be able to survive the short term fluctuations of poker. If you don't care about busting out, or reloading your bankroll, then bankroll guidelines don't apply to you. Obviously. Play anywhere you like.

[BrianSwa]

thanks TP and BB,
thats kinda what I wanted to hear, just seems like so many people are stuck on this having the correct bankroll for a game no matter what. I just wanted to know if there are instances were that dosent apply. Playing poker in hell, that dosent sound too fun.

[bdawg31]

I think people confuse what the bankroll 'guideline' is (or maybe its me that gets confused). I look at it as someone saying "To ride out the fluxuations that one is inevitably going to encouter - one should have 300x the BB to account for that. This is true if you are a winning player".

But, i think this has been discussed repeatedly on here.

[PShabi]

Bankroll = The amount you have to play poker. (I.E. I have $3,000 that I can afford to lose playing poker)

Buy-in = The amount you sit down with for a given session.

I don't know where my bankroll is right now, but let's just say it's more than double the min requirement for my level.

However, when I sit down, I buy-in for $150. Do you see the difference?

Seriously, we need a filter and anytime Brian uses the word "bankroll" the thread should be deleted.

[BrianSwa]

I know the difference, thats not the question I asked.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

I don't see how it matters for that player. If they are having to redeposit every time they get paid, they aren't a very good player, or are being outplayed at the limit they are playing.

Even if they win, it really isn;'t a bankroll issue. They are just putting money into poker as entertainment and if they are happy if they blow through it in an hour, then that is fine.

If you are trying to build it up (either for money, or just for the challenge) then they should play within the bankroll to avoid going bust and "losing")

[BlibbityBlabbity]

This question struck me as the same kind of devil's advocate thread you used to start all the time.

This has been covered a million times but, .....
I don't think you need to have 300BB in a site (or even online) to play a certain limit. You just need to have an implied bankroll of at least 300BB to play a limit comfortably.

Ex. 5/10 Limit = $3000 bankroll min, right? If you want to put in $300 and play it knowing you might bust out in an hour and need to reload, then you are fine (assuming you have another $2700 "available" as part of an implied bankroll).