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no, you would play short-stacked with 20 full buyins and have plenty of room for the variance.

So if you are buying in for $20 on an NL100 table then you would want $2000.
This 20 full buyins...or 100 short buyins.

I suspect you could easily get away with only 10-15 full buyins when your initial buyin is $20 on an NL100 table.
But I really can't say for certain.

Regardless, if you are a tightish, nitty short-stacker I can't imagine your variance would be very bad at all.


Some players on here have cranked out a few zillion hands of short-stacking making somewhere around 2-3BB/100 and could give better estimates on the variance involved.

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The reason you need that 80-100 buyin roll is because of the massive variance.

But something else stands out here even more.. you plan on playing with a bankroll that is comparable to a normal roll, in hopes of mimicking the extraordinarily succesful upper echelon of shortstackers that somehow manage to make a breath taking 2-3BB/100? When you could just buy in normal, where an average/decent player will make around 5BB/100?

I think you've lost me in your logic somewhere.