Bankroll Management Tips

A bankroll is the amount of money a player sets aside to play poker. Proper bankroll management helps the player to choose the correct playable limits, minimize risks and not lose all the money during periods of failure.

There are three main approaches to bankroll management:

Aggressive bankroll management:

With such bankroll management player follows a strategy in which he moves to a new limit with only 20 (and sometimes 17 buy-ins) per limit. Going down is required when you lose 3 buy-ins at the new limit. This approach requires serious discipline and good experience. This method of bankroll management is definitely not suitable for beginners and is recommended for experienced players who want to quickly pass the lower limits in order to reduce the rake load and gain a foothold at the higher limits as soon as possible.
Example: When playing at NL5, we have to go to the NL10 limit with $ 200. In this case, you need to return to NL5 when you reach the level of $ 170, and go to NL25 with a bankroll of $ 500.

2. Normal bankroll management:
This approach allocates approximately 40 buy-ins to the upper limit. If you lose 10 buy-ins of the upper limit, it is recommended to go down to restore the bankroll.
Such bankroll management is suitable for most beginners as well as more or less experienced players.
Example: To play at NL50, you need to have $ 2000. It is recommended to go down when falling to $ 1500, and switch to NL100 when rising to $ 4000.

3. Conservative bankroll management:

The most reliable approach to bankroll management. It is recommended to have 100 buy-ins of the working limit with a trigger when you have 80 buy-ins left. Suitable for professional players for whom poker is the main or only source of income.

For a comfortable game, we recommend you the first or second method of maintaining your bankroll.

It is also important to have a stop loss during the session. We advise you to leave the 3 buy-in table to find new more profitable tables.
To minimize risks, we do not recommend having at least three 3 buy-ins (300bb) on each of your accounts.