I'm slightly confused by Ferguson's rules on when to exit a game when it gets too expensive.

He says you cannot buy into any game exceeding 5% of your bankroll (I get that obv). But, he says you must leave the game when the money on the table represents more than 10% of your total bankroll. Does this mean that if you win a few pots and gain a larger stack at the table that you must leave when YOUR OWN stack reaches 10% of your total bankroll.......or does he mean you must leave when the entire table's cumulative chip stacks add up to more than 10% of your total bankroll?

I feel like this is probably a stupid question, but its not clicking in my brain. Thanks for the help.

he means your own stack, and it only means you have to leave when your on the egde of 20 buyins.

So this has nothing do with the fact that you would need to leave when you get a larger stack?

so if I buyin for $100 on a $2000 BR I only have to leave the table when I reach 20 buyins? how are you at the maths?

you have a BR of $2000 and you buyin to a $100NL table and you run it up to $220. your total BR is now $2120 and you have more than 10% of that on the table so you need to rathole - I mean leave the table.

simplified:
if you can lose 10% of your bankroll in one hand you need to leave.
according to chris

OMG...OSU is easy to get into..im gonna apply

it means...u should only risk 5% of ur roll in any given tounr yor cash game...so if i have a roll of 1000 dollars and i buy in for 25 bucks to a nl talbe then go on a huge rush and get up to 75 bucks...my roll is now 1050...and 75 dollars is too high a % of that to be gambling up wiith

Thank you very much...Thats exactly what I thought Ferguson meant, but it leaves room for doubt, because its not extremely str8 forward since i obv didnt understand completely.

ooooh, you were soooo close

his BR management is for freaking short stacking nubbinscakes.

In simple terms, only call preflop with suited connectors when the call represents <= 5% of your effective stack. Fold medium pocket pairs when the call represents >= 10% of your effective stack. Of course, these rules don't apply to -every- situation; they are just general guidelines. Wait...what?

I'm actually at Oregon State (top ten u.s. engineering program) on a full ride engineering scholarship and I obv just didnt understand the question. Tyler thank you for confirming what I already thought, just wasnt 100% sure which makes jacka** comments unnecessary.

huhwhatyousay?...wtf are you talking about?

wow this must be a level right?

yeah, plus the fact that tyler still got it wrong just makes it that much funnier

Idk; I just saw 5% and 10% and put 2 and 2 together. It's a bad analogy I guess. I thought it would clear it up. Simpler than before: Leave the table when the money on the table represents 10% of your bankroll. Ex: If you 5% max-buy into $200NL and run up to $440, you now have a 4240 bankroll. $440 > 10% of $4240, so leave the table.

if i got it wrong someone fix my post

how did i get this wrong...u take 2.5% of ur BR to the table...triple that to 75$ which is now 7.5% of ur bankroll
andu should leave the table...obv this wouldnt apply to tournaments but u should have plenty of touny BI b4 u play them obviously...id suggest well over 20 buy ins which would be 5%

sorry for the wise ass comment earlier congrats on being in cschool i may end up going back forreal...anyways tell me how i [censored] it up here

I think think it would be better if he said that not only would your stack have to be > 10% of your roll, but there should have to be another stack at your table who has more than 10% of your roll as well.

this is all waayyy to nitty, all u need to move up to a new limit is 1 buy in, ldo

FYP

is this whole thing a master level or are people really this ******ed?

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They wouldn't take you, you spell like you dropped out of 3rd grade .. moran

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I wrote this when I thought I was sticking up for Ohio State not Oregon state .. oh well