Posted Sun Feb 15, 2004 10:05 am GMT by gringoloco
How do you professional limit hold'em players calculate the bankroll needed to fund your play?
Do you use the table limits ($20/$40) as the base and then have a number of bets, like 100 x 40 = $4,000 as the starting bankroll. Maybe it's 1,000 x 40 - I don't know (this is why I am asking) If not, maybe you use the average pot size as the base times 40, 60 or 100.
I would think a serious hold'em player, intending to approach play as a business for the purpose of making a living, would have a plan and a bankroll (capital) to start.
I would be interested to hear any comments this forum might have on this subject.
Thanks, GringoLoco
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Posted Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:25 am GMT by JohnnyCache
If it's a game I don't know I like to sit down with 100 small bets . . . so 1000 at a 10/20, etc. . . that's because I plan for extra loss figuring out the table . . . I can get by with 25-50 bets if I know what I'm getting into. . .
Posted Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:36 am GMT by karasz
in super system, doyle says 200x the big blind... which for a 1-2 game is 400 bucks... 3-6 is 1200... so you may want to hit the lottery before playing it for real
Posted Wed Feb 18, 2004 12:17 pm GMT by JohnnyCache
That seems like a huge roll . . . but he's retired playing poker and I'm not. . .
Posted Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:27 pm GMT by Carson Cashman
Those figures sound like No Limit buyins.
I usually do 50 times the small blind for a limit game. You'd look pretty ridiculous buying into a $4/$8 game at your local casino with $1600 when everyone else at the table has $100 (people at the lower limits usually buy in pretty light)
But hey, if you have the cash, it really can't hurt if you want to buy in with 200x the big blind. 
(unless ofcourse, you're a terrible player and don't know when to walk away)
Posted Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:35 pm GMT by munster000
nah man, he means ur bank roll should be 200X the big bet of what your playing. this doesnt mean what you bring to the table should be 200X the bet. he is right because you need to be able to take a substantial amout of losses without goin broke!
Posted Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:57 pm GMT by ZZZinindy
I was at Ceasar's in IN and I asked the poker manager about what kind of buy in was acceptable for not looking like a chump at a $5/10 game. He said that anything over a hundred was fine and it you bought in for more than $200 the players might look at you funny. So having more money in my pocket in case I got short stacked, I bought in for the hundred and everything worked out fine. Mind you I'm no pro! Just a regular guy.
ZZZ
Posted Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:38 pm GMT by thepheonix
Buy in at a table should be about 50 big blinds. Your starting bankroll as a player should be 250 Big Bets. If you want to become a professional poker player who regularly plays at the 10/20 table you should have 5,000 before you should try to do this. This doesn't mean bring $5000 to the table, it means that is how much your poker bankroll should stay at. You should sit at the table with about $250. That is the general rule most professionals use when playing ring games from what I have read in books and seen online at professional poker players sites/forums.
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