Bankroll article

[Wm. Jockusch]

Having seen the reaction to this article, I just want to state my reason for writing it. Prior bankroll articles were answering the wrong question! For bankroll purposes, the correct question to answer is this one:

If I have $B, and some known win rate, what is the chance that I will be able to play at my limit forever, without going broke?

No prior poker article answered this question. In his Poker Essays book, Mason acknowledges that he answered a different question, but he never answers the correct question. That is what my article does. To my knowledge, no prior poker bankroll article answers this question. (Some math papers do, but most poker players don't read those.)

If I were writing the article over, I would make this more clear.