NL Bankroll management

[tehkris]

[ QUOTE ]
For comfortable, on-line NL play, you should have 20 times the max-buy in at the limit you're playing. You can get by with 10. So for .5/1 100-max NL you should have $1000 to $2000 bankroll to get started. I'd recommend $2000 or more if you plan to 4-table or more since you can hit some downswings right out of the gate sometimes.

Less than 10 buy-ins and you'll either be playing weak tight with scared money, or you'll find yourself on the wrong end of a downswing without enough money to win it back.

Sometimes, when I play live, I might have as little as 3-5 buyins in my BR. But I end up playing very tight. And I leave when and if I take a bad beat. That is really not a good way to play. More recently, at live 5/5 NL, I've been sure to have a BR of at least 8-10 buy-ins, but that's still a little low to play as comfortably as I should.

[/ QUOTE ]
GENIUS