Bankroll Management

Bankroll Management (BRM) is a system by which a player manages his capital available for playing poker by deciding which limit on which to play and minimizing the risk of bankruptcy due to fluctuations in wins and losses.

There are very conservative and very aggressive kinds of BRMs. A conservative BRM might say that one can only move to the next limit if one has 30 full stacks or 300 big bets on that limit and that one moves down a limit when one has 30 full stacks or 300 big bets on that lower limit. An aggressive BRM might draw the line at 10 stacks.

A common BRM is the rule that one can only play on a limit if one has 20-30 full stacks (no- and pot-limit) or 200-300 big bets (fixed limit) for that limit.

Related Topics:

Risk of ruin, Stack, Big Bet, Limit