{"id":835,"date":"2011-06-10T05:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T09:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=835"},"modified":"2011-06-16T05:47:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T09:47:12","slug":"micro-stakes-bankroll-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/micro-stakes-bankroll-management","title":{"rendered":"Micro Stakes Bankroll Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people claim that the micro stakes are\u00a0unbeatable, which is a complete lie. The micro stakes offer the lowest form of competition available, as long as you&#8217;re willing to be patient and avoid being overly-aggressive against calling stations. Okay, it involves a little more than this, but the point of this article is to talk about micro stakes bankroll management.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest problem people have when it comes to low limit bankroll\u00a0management\u00a0is playing at stakes where they can&#8217;t cover a sufficient amount of buy-ins. For example, a player will deposit $25 into a poker site, then jump into $0.05\/$0.10 No-Limit Hold&#8217;em. This might seem okay since you&#8217;re playing against weaker players, but you also have to consider that $25 is only enough to cover 2-and-a-half buy-ins at these stakes. If you suffer a few bad beats at these limits, you are going to lose your bankroll rather quickly.<\/p>\n<p>So instead of jumping into $0.05\/$0.10 NLHE with a $25 bankroll, it&#8217;s a much better idea to drop down to $0.01\/$0.02. Seeing as how the competition is so easy at these limits, and people are willing to go all-in with 8-6 (off-suit) on a regular basis, you&#8217;ll be able to experience success rather quickly. Sure there will be times when you&#8217;ll get beat by these crazy hands, but the large majority of the time, you will win lots of money (comparative\u00a0to stakes).<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, taking a $25 bankroll into $0.01\/$0.02 NLHE gives you twelve-and-a-half buy-ins at these stakes. This means that you have plenty of buy-ins to survive bad variance and ultimately make some money. Now playing limits these low isn&#8217;t exactly ideal in terms of your overall money goals, but look at it this way: if you make $0.80 in an hour, you&#8217;ve made 40 big blinds. And if you consistently do this, you&#8217;ll be moving up the limits in no time!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people claim that the micro stakes are\u00a0unbeatable, which is a complete lie. The micro stakes offer the lowest form of competition available, as long as you&#8217;re willing to be patient and avoid being overly-aggressive against calling stations. Okay, it involves a little more than this, but the point of this article is to talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[416,415,412,414,413],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}