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Originally Posted by AlanBostick
My bread-and-butter game is a 2 (on the button)-3-5 game where a $10 straddle can be posted in any position. Four times out of five, the table agrees to play "winner straddle," where the winner of the previous pot posts the straddle for the next hand. Basically, the game becomes 2-3-5-10 played with a rock.
The buy-in cap is $1000 (200 bb before straddle, 100bb counting the straddle). The game gets a lot looser (which it should, but only a little, because effectively the [double] big blind has absolute position preflop), and the fishy players limp way too much, call too much when their limps get raised, and pay too much on the later streets with their lame-ass hands.
I buy-in for the max, top up when I drop below $1K, and get $2K out of the cage when first show up in the room. That's my stop-loss, and circumstances have to be special for me to get more chips out of the cage.
Thanks. that is what I was thinking of doing, is just bringing 2 buy ins. I play online poker every day and you know, I don't have to put any thought into buy ins or top off money because the money is already on the account and it auto tops off.
2 questions.
1. Do you think that since my game is 133bb max buy in that I should bring more than more than 2 buy ins? You are basically bringing 400 big blinds and if I bring 2 buy ins it is considerably less, 266bb.
2. Do you think this should impact the way I view my bankroll strategy?
(Just so you know, if this isn't apparent, I am basically a rec player, live. I used to play live quite a bit when I was single (4-5x/month). Now, I'm married with kids and I haven't played in 18 months because of covid. I would like to start playing again 2-3 times per month. I have a good job and make decent money but what I DO NOT have is a $20,000 roll that can be devoted exclusively to poker, nor do I have the kind of discretionary income where I can lose $800 dollars twice a month and not feel it, nor do I have the kind of wife who is going to think that is ok if it goes on for too long. Haha.
I was going to set aside $3k for a 1/3 bankroll to start with, with the ability to add to it. 10 buy ins has always been sufficient for me when playing online stakes. But, they have raised the max buy in to $400 so now I am putting together $4k.
I completely understand that most people recommend 20 buy ins and that pros recommend significantly more than that. I am not trying to go pro obviously. I also understand that lowering bankroll standards causes me to play a little more conservatively until I build up the roll a little bit. Understood. Over time, I would hope to build my bankroll up to 20 buy ins for $1/$3. That would be my goal.
****My concern is that if I am really going to liberally top-off and be willing to lose $800 every time I show up at the casino, maybe I should be considering 20 buy ins of $800 dollars as my goal, not 20 buy ins of $400, liewise, starting out-comfort money should be 10x$800, not 10x$400. What do you think? Thanks.