Re: Bankroll and Moving up
I read the first few posts...
At what point you move up is largely dependent on how good you are, not your BR. If you take a solid 5/10 player, he doesn't need 20 buy-ins to play NL 50 from NL 25--it would be a freak of nature for him to drop 10 buy-ins before having grown his roll significantly.
I started NL cash games in February of this year, and my rule was 20 buy ins for each level because that's what people recommended. I started at NL 50, and only played about 1200 hands b/c I had a good BR dedicated to NL to start. NL 100 is where I did a lot of learning, and when I had 20 buy-ins for NL 200, I moved up. For NL 400, I actually waited a little longer than 20 buy-ins because the money intimidated me a bit. I believe I had 30-35 buy-ins. And then for NL 600, I had over 40 buy-ins because I didn't want to ever risk going below NL 400. But through all of this, the biggest swing I ever had was under 8 buy-ins, and that swing was when I already had won a lot at that level, so it wasn't like I lost 8 of the 20 buy ins, it was more like 8 off of 32. So the 20 buy-in rule is definitely safe for the lower levels assuming that you are a good, winning player; it's perhaps even conservative.
If I had to do it again, I would be willing to play NL 25 with 8 BI's, NL 50 with 10 or so, NL 100 with 12-15, 15 for NL 200, 20 for NL 400, and 25-30 for NL 600. For 5/10, I'd want 20 for 5/10 + 30 for 3/6.
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