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Unfortunately, for most of us that play as a hobby and 1 or 2 table online or play live for buy-ins of 1/4 to 1/3 our poker bankroll, some of the risks involved with certain plays are just not worth it

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you have a poker bankroll. you acknowledge sitting down to a table w/ a large % of it. you then try to minimize your risk given you've already accepted MUCH MUCH larger risk (putting that large a % of your 'bankroll' on the table to play a game of chance). that exercise is inane to the point of redicularity.

think going to mcdonalds while on a diet, ordering double cheeseburgers, fries, a malt, a chocolate cake, and getting a diet soda instead of a regular soda b/c you're on a DIET!

the marginal savings of calories from regular to diet soda is pretty much what you're doing when you say you want to minimize the risk of losing any one particular hand. you've already accepted the massive risk of putting such a huge % of your money in play at any given time that the marginal effects of saving units of risk will in the end make no difference (i.e. if you continue to play w/ that % of your roll, you will go broke at some point or another. period.)

i dont mean to dispirit you like this, but you have to learn this now before you really get yourself in trouble.

good luck (and in your case i should say "(good luck)^100000")

Barron

PS- the solution is simple. either play no poker, or play lower where you can earn a poker roll large neough to play the games you want to over time. sorry, but those are your options...or you can continue to play the waiting game you are now.