Working up a bankroll

Hi, I'm just learning the game and I'm trying to learn how to properly C-bet, play ABC poker when I need to, and control my emotions at the table. I can only really deposit 15-20$ at a time, and was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to build up a bankroll with such a small amount of money to play with. I am fairly good at sit and goes and probably win 2/3 that I play. Past this though, any BR management tips or tables/games I should be playing, to work this up to 50-100$? Or should I just save up the 20$ or so a month/2 months that I can get, and wait until I have 100$ or so to play, and only play freerolls in the meantime?

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Originally Posted by Tiberiussilver

I am fairly good at sit and goes and probably win 2/3 that I play.

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I call.

stick with the small sit and gos. Just till you can get a better handle on the game. Continue to read up on strategy and play and just stick with the freerolls and small sit and gos untill u have the proper br. gl to u

I'm pretty fresh myself but I would say play micro-stakes, buy-in with 100 big blinds, and have about 10-25 buy-ins in your bank roll. I feel like thats what I've come across reading.

It is up to you. If you are good on sit&go's, than play them all the way until you get higher BR. Keep in mind that you need to have at least 25-50 buy-ins to play comfortable at the table! So no hurry up!

1post... No dice

I always thought that Fergusons bankroll rules were always pretty solid. He pretty well covers all aspects of proper BR management.

I think your strategy to build up a bankroll is greatly affected by your skill. There are definitely many aspects to take into account such as your skill, the ability to reload. I am putting the ability to reload because not everybody is ok starting from freerolls. I would even say playing those freerolls too much can be detrimental to your game if you dont adjust when playing bigger games.

If you want to start from scratch i definitely like the SNG. Back in the days i had a bankroll and i just experimented for fun. I started on everest poker and they has those small stakes sng. I went from 0 to 4 digits pretty quickly. In the case you dont want to reload you have to grind the first level or keep playing those freeroll + lowest sng till you have the numbers buy in you want to be safe. At the time i was playing 20 was plenty at those levels but the gap of skill seems to have shrinked quiet a bit so a bigger bankroll is probably in order.

If your bankroll is so small, stick with small sngs and penny games. You probably won't make that much money, but you can build up.

At the surface, one could say stick with what works and what you seem to enjoy, i.e., SNGs. If it works, don't break it just yet. However, one thing to consider is that micro stakes ring games have a better hourly rate of return at that level IF you know how to play them and have lower variance.

Thus, if you know how to play deep stacked poker in the ultra micros, do that. General steps I'd say:

1. Read read read! Learn to play cash games as well as SNG tournaments
2. If you swap to ring games, minimum 20x buyin roll, preferably 50. Stay at the micros with your $20 level until you can grind up
3. Take max advantage of all promotions, bonuses, freerolls, etc.

double-or-nothing SNGs are the way to build the BR and confidence. You only need to win them more than 55% of the time to build.

sethserfh

I play at the cash games and the sit n go tables. That's how I build my bankroll.

stay within your budget with a small bankroll as u have stay with the dollar sitn gos preferably the double or nothings and work ur way up thru those cause half the field gets paid and play tight

2/3 is a high win rate even if just double up sng you should build a bankroll in no time,I can't get into it ,but there a lot of good freerolls out there go to the private section of your poker room there you'll find what you need to know ,do a little research.

A super simple bankroll strategy is to just make sure you have about 10-15 buy ins for the limit you play. If you play $1sng's then make sure you have $100-$150 t account for variance. If you drop below that, go down a level until you build it back up.

Ive been working awhile at trying to grind up a sizeable bankroll... When I initially started playing on lock poker, when the SnGs were always running at buy in levels up to 50$, I was able to turn a 65$ deposit into 1400$ just by starting out with the 2$ games untill I was up to 50 buy ins then went to the 3$ games and onward to where I would mostly play 11$ and 20$ games. Also I had no idea what rakeback was or how to acquire any bonuses. So when i switched to cashgames, in which i went busto eventually because I got cocky from a 500$ upswing in a 2 hour session. I wish I had stuck with the SnGs untill I was overrolled for micro cash games. I was lured in by the seeing that a grinder at 1/2 could make 6 figure salary and I was never gonna even break 5figures playing SnGs. But one thing which was great about lock poker was I was somehow on the top tier of their VIP program so when I went broke I actually had over 350$ in their "vault" and another 180$ that was on the casino side... Anyways my best advice is whatever the number of buy ins you think you need, I would generally double that figure to ensure you dont go busto. Get some poker tracking software so you know exactly what your winrate is so when you reach a respectable bb/100 rate you can move up in stakes. Also set a stop loss to prevent yourself from going on monkey tilt and blowing buy in after buy in trying to get unstuck by luck! Good Luck at the tables!

If you are winning at the micro tables, just keep doing what you're doing. Generally, when you move up to the higher stakes tables, the skill level of the players increase as well. Winning at micro does not mean you will do as well at say 5/10. If you are win 2/3 of the time, just keep going til you double your BR, then you can always play with the house money at any stakes table with less of a worry.

You're winning 2 out of every 3 sngs...that means you're doing something right.

Can you maintain that win rate at a higher buy-in level, say $5 - $10 per sng?

I think you can, good luck.

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Originally Posted by SpikeDatJack

sethserfh

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