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Originally Posted by stremba70
For online, about 30 buyins is generally recommended as a bankroll. You will play many more hands and therefore experience much more variance than you do live. If you want to start at 10NL, therefore I would recommend depositing $300 as an initial roll and move up when you hit 30 buyins at the next level ($750 for 25NL for instance).
If you are willing to deposit more funds if things go badly, though, either of your strategies probably is fine. The 30 buyin recommendation is to minimize risk of losing your bankroll. If you are willing to make more deposits then your bankroll is really not the amount of your original deposit but the total amount you have available for online play. So long as that amount is 30+ buyins you should be fine, assuming you are able to beat the online game you choose.
Do I still need 30 buy-ins if I'm willing to drop down in stakes? Let's say I have $2,000. If I lose $1,000 at 200 NL, $500 at 100 NL, $250 at 50 NL, $150 at 25 NL, $50 at 10 NL, and $50 at 5 NL, that's 36 buy-ins.