Keeping your stack?!

smurfofaces · #1 (**permalink**) 03-29-2008, 06:26 AM

Hi, im new here, whats up?!

Im having a really, um silly(?) i guess, problem. See, im having a problem to keep the stack that i have managed to get earlier during the day/night/evening... Take yesterday for an example.(these numbers does not match, exactly, to what happened.. but almost) I put in like $50 on my account. Sat down on a table, $.5/1 ... not to long after that, a few hours, i was up to like $300 Then i caught a bad beat, someone got a perfect runner runner, i was down to like $250 ... a few hours later... i was at $0. I mean, no big lost, i started out with 50, so no biggie.. but this keeps happening, Alot, wether its on cash games, or on tournaments. Tournaments goes abiiit better, but it Could go way better if i just figgured out what im doing wrong. anyone experienced this and have a way around it?! im :Frusty: right now..

thedesidawg · #2 (**permalink**) 03-29-2008, 06:53 AM

Use BANKROLL MANAGEMENT....

$50 at $.50/$1 is not even 1 full buy in.....

PatMood · #3 (**permalink**) 03-29-2008, 08:22 AM

Must you critcise his bankroll management? He obviously doesn't keep a bankroll on the site but is willing to put more on. My suggestion is Fold when you're beat... And those situations where "You can't fold", Fold.

Coleman · #4 (**permalink**) 03-29-2008, 09:00 AM

Listen to the desidawg, play the lowest limit for your game if you want to keep your money in your account. If you want to gamble and hope you get lucky, then go ahead and play NL100. But if you dont know what bankroll management is then you obviously haven't been playing for too long and the players at NL100 usually will be playing 9 tables better than you can play one. Take the desi's advice and play NL4 or something. If you use bankroll management, even i you have a series of bad betas, you still have money to play with.

GL at the tables!

dwbrown7680 · #5 (**permalink**) 03-29-2008, 05:11 PM

I suggest leaving when you're up 600% of what you sat down for

....but that's just my 2 cents

c2000 · #6 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 04:14 AM

I'm not near the poker player as some of the rest of the guys on here,,but that has happened to me..I think what happens is you work hard to get up and then you get the bad beat and even though you tell yourself not to go on tilt you do and you start playing different than you did before,,you start to hope you catch a card when normally you would fold,,so after a bad beat maybe leave the table and do something else and come back later...

Jerry in Minnesota

jharding666 · #7 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 04:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwbrown7680

I suggest leaving when you're up 600% of what you sat down for

....but that's just my 2 cents

Yeah, if you REALLY want to take the approach you have then when you get up to this sort of amount, leave the table and spread your 300 across 3 tables (or even 6 if you like working up from 50)

MJPerry · #8 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 04:42 AM

Half a buy-in has to take the record for worst bankroll ever.

And we have to criticise his bankroll management because the post is about keeping your money which you can't do without good BRM.