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Originally Posted by DMoogle
It's difficult to grasp this concept, can you explain with some detail why? I thought that if you played forever, then as long as your RoR was >0% then you have a 100% chance of going broke... at some point.
Only losing players go broke 100% of the time.
If your risk of ruin (RoR) is 2%, then this means that there is a 98% chance that you can player poker for the rest of your life without having to redeposit. However, the risk formulas only apply if you never change stakes. They do not apply if you routinely change stakes when you hit a rough downswing. In that case, there is less chance that you will go broke.
Your risk of ruin is just the probability that you will bust your roll at some point. It may happen when you're 90 years old, but it's probably unlikely if you've lasted that long.