i'll give my 2 cents about limit bankrolls

1. you can start with a very short bankroll (150BB) up to 1/2 I'd say. I would want to move up the limits as fast as possible, always taking shots at the higher limits with 50BB, etc. I wouldn't recommend playing with more than 300BB bankroll below 3/6 because anything over that I'd want to put up into trying a bigger level.

I DO recommend 500-600BB for limits that you are currently playing. At my limit right now, I could lose 125BB in 2 hours and if I only had a 300BB roll, over a third of it would be gone. I myself have about 900-1000BB's online at the moment so 125BB's is painless.

Just think if you lost $2000 on a $6000 bankroll or losing $2000 on a $20,000 bankroll. You probably wopn't be as bothered with the second one as much.

Most of you guys are saying that you can buy-in short, with <150 bb, which is fine, as long as you know what you are doing, and understand variance. But Then your saying You could rebuy for another 150 from other sources of finances, well then, in essence, you have 300 bb in your BR, because thats what you were willing to expend to get there. At least thats how I'm reading it.

It was late and I hadn't finalized my thoughts yet, but i posted anyways. Couple things I forgot to add:

1) I meant to inlcude something similar to the Emtional BR in the first rule, If you can't take the swings that can occur, then don't play.

2) and yes, sometimes watching the game doenst do you any good, especially at LLH. But Making sure you are prepared to play the correct game at these limits does.

3) Tryijng to re/build a BR quickly by playing with a short BR is different than what I am proposing here. I intended this to be a guideline for low variance steps up. Playing short is high variance play,and can easily lead to ruin, but that is an accepted risk in the tradeoff to building the BR. This method is a safer, lower reward method.

shoulda typed it up and sat on it first.... Too tired last night to proofread.

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