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Strategy: Fixed Limit

Bankroll management

by Dr. Tobias Georgi

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1. Introduction

In this article

  • Minimize risks, maximize profits

  • Sometimes you have to descend to ascend

  • Your personal roadmap

Some people can't handle money. As soon as they have some, it's gone already. Their account is chronically overdrawn, and everything only works out as long as the salary comes in regularly and no exceptional expenses cross their path. Bad comes to worse when the salary is canceled and major expenses stand in line. Bankruptcy looms.

You need reserve assets

In poker it isn't any different. Your bankroll is the poker equivalent of your household budget. If it's overdrawn, everything is over. Thus you never want to risk losing all your money. For that you need reserve assets. After all, in poker it doesn't always go uphill. Sometimes you're hit by a streak of bad luck and lose one hand after the other. Your poker balance has to be able to withstand this.

On the other hand, you don't want to only play for safety. Your goal is to quickly move up the limits, as more and more money is waiting for you the higher you get.

Get rich, but safely please!

Even at first glance, you already notice a conflict: get rich, but safely please! Balancing and combining these two goals is the task of the so-called Bankroll Management.

PokerStrategy's bankroll management is a tried and tested approach to safely yet quickly pass your way up the limits. It protects you from bankruptcy or huge financial setbacks when you are hit by unavoidable streaks of bad luck.

It tells you:

  • At which level of your bankroll you can play a certain limit.

  • At which level of your bankroll you should move down to a lower limit to prepare for a renewed ascent.

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You should still read the article though, in order to ensure that you have really understood the strategy.  Your bankroll with be thankful.

QUIZ  

QUESTION 1: What does PokerStrategy's bankroll management guarantee you?

a) That you climb up the limits in a relatively safe and quick manner.
b) That you always win.
c) That you won't lose your starting balance, even if you don't pay heed to PokerStrategy's strategies.

 

QUESTION 2: Which guideline does PokerStrategy's bankroll management give you?

a) When you should bet what amount.
b) When you should push all-in.
c) When you can relatively safely climb up to a higher limit.

 

QUESTION 3: What is your goal in poker?

a) To maximize profits and minimize the risk of a total loss.
b) To make as much profit as quickly as possible.
c) To maybe not become the best player, but at least the best bluffer of all time.

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