Thread: $27 bankroll
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Old 11-17-2007, 10:32 AM
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Default Re: $27 bankroll

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I currently have $27 in my poker stars account. What would be suitable for a bankroll of this amount. I was thinking of playing 1.10 sit and go turbos. 45man.

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If you are not a winning player, play whatever you think is fun.

If you win at some forms of poker but not others, you should stick to what you know. Don't try something new because someone else would be properly bankrolled. A bankroll does not give you skills.

If you are an expert at all forms of poker, I recommend playing NL with a $0.02 big blind. A good heuristic to use to compare games is

comfort = bankroll * win rate / (standard deviation^2).

In order to get the same 3.5 comfort level as you would have playing NL with a $0.02 big blnid with some relatively conservative statistics (winning $0.80/100, with a standard deviation of $2.50/100), you would need to have ROIs of 35% (std dev 1.5 buyins) and 120% (std dev 2.8 buy-ins) in the 9-player and 45-player SNGs, respectively. Maybe those are achievable if you don't multitable too much, but the figures for NL look much more conservative to me than the ones for the tournaments.

Actually, I see there are Omaha8 tournaments. Very high ROIs may be possible in those if you know how to play O8 well, much higher than the win rates in NLHE.

Most people prefer a comfort level from 2 to 4. You should definitely move down (e.g., to $0.02-$0.04 LHE) before your comfort level drops to 1/2 of your target.
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