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• Bankroll Rules For Cash GamesA Common Guideline For No Limit Cash Games Is To Keep 20 To 50 Buy Ins For The Stake You Play, Because Even A Winning Player Can Lose Many Buy Ins In A Row: At The Example Win Rate Below, 20 Buy Ins Still Carries A 13.5% Risk Of Going Broke.
• Bankroll Rules For TournamentsA Common Guideline For Multi Table Tournaments Is To Keep At Least 100 Buy Ins, And More For Large Fields, Because Most Entries Finish Outside The Money And A Winning Player Can Go Hundreds Of Tournaments Without A Big Score.
• Bankroll Rules For Sit And Goes, SpinsA Common Guideline For Single Table Sit And Goes Is 50 To 100 Buy Ins, And For Lottery Style Spin Games With Random Prize Multipliers Many Players Keep 100 Or More, Because A Large Share Of The Prize Money Sits In Multipliers That Come Up Rarely.
• Risk Of Ruin: How Much Bankroll Is EnoughRisk Of Ruin Is The Chance Of Losing A Whole Bankroll Before Your Edge Shows, And It Falls Fast As The Bankroll Grows: At The Example Win Rate And Standard Deviation Below It Is 13.5% With 20 Buy Ins And 0.67% With 50.

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