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Friday, Feb. 24, 2006

Bankroll examples for Texas Hold'em

By PokerListings.com

Shortstack Bankroll examples for Texas Hold'em

Bankroll examples for Texas Hold'em

A good way to start out is by learning how to play Limit Texas Hold'em well. This is the most popular game played both online and offline. But more importantly, it is an easy game to learn and to play at a decent level as a beginner. See our Limit Texas Hold'em strategy articles. You should be aware that a beginning player can easily lose 30-50 big bets at one table during a few hours of online poker play, even strong winning players can lose this much if they are running unlucky. This equals losses of $60-$100 at a $1-$2 limit game, which is still considered low limit. Knowing this should help you accepting the unavoidable swings that take place in poker. Good professional poker players usually need a bankroll of at least 300 times the big bet, when playing Limit Texas Hold'em, in order to play comfortably over time because of the big swings. Also your playing style affects the size of your bank roll. The looser you play (can still be a good way of playing) and the more loose/aggressive games you participate in, the bigger will the swings in your bank roll be.

Here is a table with bankroll requirements for various limits at Texas Hold'em:

Game Limit Minimum bankroll
Limit Texas Hold'em $0.5-$1 $300-$500
$1-$2 $600-$1000
$3-$6 $1,800-$3,000
$5-$10 $3,000-$5,000
$15-$30 $9,000-$15,000
$30-$60 $18,000-$30,000
No-Limit Texas Hold'em $0.25-$0.50 $500-$1,000
$0.5-$1 $1,000-$2,000
$1-$2 $2,000-$4,000
$2-$4 $4,000-$8,000
$5-$10 $10,000-$20,000

As you can see, for Limit Texas Hold'em we recommend a bank roll of 300-500 times the Big Bet and for No-Limit a bank roll of 1000-2000 times the Big Blind.

For more details read money-management.

Comment(s) on this article

SmackinYaUp Mar 9, 2008

I don't know about limit, but the no-limit bankrolls in this article are dangerously low.

The absolute minimum bankroll in no limit should be at least 20 buyins in small stakes games and more at high stakes games. A $10,000 bankroll at $5/$10 is asking for all sorts of trouble.


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