Downward Spiral!

[BrianSwa]

$170 is just enough to play .25/.50 limit, JUST BARLEY ENOUGH , yes if you cant stay in your bankroll limits I think you should quit because your heading down a bad road that I myself have traveled. I used to not be able to control my limits either but now stick to them big time. You should be no where near the $3/$6 table with that bankroll. I truley dont suggest NL either, If you make a deposit ever again I think you should stick to .25/.50.

You just are not disaplined enough yet, and you have to be in poker. Im not the best disaplined player either so im not best one to give advice so ask someone else.

[Talking Poker]

My advice to you:
1. Realize that you are nowhere near as good as you think you are.
2. Never sit down at a table with more than 5% of your entire bankroll. Yes, 5%.
3. If you are having trouble with #1 and #2, quit. If you have a gambling problem, it's better for you to go cold turkey than to play with fire.

[JDMcNugent7]

I am not consumed by poker or gambling but once I'm on i see the money and i want to make as much of it as fast as i can. I know that's not the right thing to do and just writing all this down is even helping me. I am quitting poker for 1 week and then i am making a new deposit. I promised myself if i play out of my bankroll I won't allow myself to play the next week. This whole 5% thing seems A little much tho. Is that what you do? or is that just strict advice? I'm going to deposit $400, which is the amount i am so far up on the internet poker overall. If i lose it I break even and I'll just quit internet poker. I'll keep you guys posted on how i play. I'll probably join the $100 bankroll building thing too. I'm going to try and actually keep all these promises on here, even the 5% thing. Thanks for the advice. If you guys could just keep me in line like you are now it Really Really does help. I want to be a good solid poker player who plays within his limits and i think if i keep promises to this post I'll be in the right direction. Thx

[greenbuckets]

I guess that rule would be on a sliding scale depending on your style of play. I am fairly tight and I usually have about 10-15% of my bankroll in play at any one time.

[lightfungus]

I play strictly NL and probably put 20-50% of my bankroll in at a time. Apparently this is bad, but I think what helps me manage it is I play with rations, not chips and money. I view the money I have at the table as chips and whether I am playing .50/1 or 1/2 I will raise 4x the big blind with AK in either won. I think the bankroll percentage rule is if you let swings affect yoru play and to allow for luck. I dont suggest doing what I do, but try not to let the last hand affect the next hand. Play YOUR game. Hope that helps.

[JDMcNugent7]

see, me and lightfungus are alike, i think hes young too. are you ? and we both obviously play out of our bankroll. He sits with 50% and i have often times sat with 75%, even 100% before. I guess it's just us young kids dont understand our limits. It obviously works for him better tho cuz i lost all mine and he didnt lol. good luck fungus, but i learned my lesson and i am going to play at no MORE than 15% from now on. hopefully u wont have to learn the hard way like i did.

[BrianSwa]

lightfungus has a history of playing disaplined he knows when to stop you have told us you dont. If I were you I would stick to maybe .05/.10 NL for a little while, this may not sound like much for you to win but trust me the money is there you need to work on your disapline before you attempt to play out of the 5% of your bankroll.

[lightfungus]

I have learned. I have lost a bankroll in the 300 range after a deposit of 50 playing outside my means too. That was well over a year ago. So I learned, and I very well may learn again, but I play the NL pretty tight with a routine with cards and all seeing 12-18% of flops. But I have learned. Poker seems very willing to teach. It giveths and it takeths away. I guess you just have to hold on tighter when it is taking it away.