Friday 14 September 2012

The Best Sit And Go Bankroll Control

By Lewis Schiaffino


Good sit and go bankroll management is the most important factor in succeeding in poker. If you choose to play the variety of poker with the highest amount of variance, then you will need to prepare and handle your money in such a way that you are not effected by negative outcomes.

It is not enough to simply play good poker. Sometimes you will get aces cracked over and over. You may have a pocket pair and flop a monster, a set, but someone else will catch a runner runner to make a flush or straight. There is nothing you can do about these situations. They occur because while poker is a game of skill there is still an element of luck involved.

Any study of the very best poker players in the sit and go field will show that they experience extreme variance. The reason that they are able to withstand the swings that come with this form of poker is that they are prepared. They have established a proper bankroll system that will allow them to deal with bad beats.

Imagine busting out of your tenth SNG in a row. Maybe you had the best hand. Queens against pocket fives all in preflop, and the 5 hits on the river. If you are properly rolled for the stake and the type of SNG, then you won't tilt as much as if you are paying on case money. This is especially important for new players who are likely to not be experience with dealing with the endless bad beats that can and do sometimes happen.

So how do you know how many buy-ins? As a rule the more entrants the more buy-ins. If you're playing 9 man sit and goes you might feel comfortable playing with 50. If you are playing the 45 man you will want 100 buy ins and for the 180 man SNG's you will want two hundred plus buy ins.

The next factor is something that many people fail to consider. The higher the buy in the better the competition. You are not going to get people to stack off super light in the higher buy ins. There are more pro's playing and less fish. Therefore it would be wise to increase the buy in requirements when playing higher.

Because a higher buy in level requires a larger bankroll it is imperative that you change your views on cashing out. IF you are someone who is constantly cashing out profits, consider the problem with that line of thinking. You will never improve your win rate because you will never have a roll large enough to get into the bigger games. You want to get into the higher buy in games in order to make a more substantial profit, but this requires building your roll and not immediately cashing out a profit.




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