How To BUILD A POKER BANKROLL [TOP Tips From A PROFESSIONAL!]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- Today I give you some of my best tips for building a poker bankroll to help you start making money from poker!
Whether you’ve just started your poker bankroll or you already have a small bankroll, these tips will help you to take your poker career to the next level so you can move up in stakes!
I will show you the strategies that I use for managing a bankroll, give you tips on game selection, teach you when you should move up stakes and much much more!
So sit back with some (poker) chips and enjoy my in-depth guide to managing your poker bankroll!
#poker #pokerbankroll #JonathanLittle - บันเทิง
Which tip in this video will help you manage your bankroll better?
Don’t be in a rush
I hope you don't mind a relatively long reply. I already knew your tips for playing cash games because I have 5 or 6 of your books, as well as reading the Super System and books from other professionals, both cash oriented and tournament. I'm 70 and grew up playing stud in high school and when I was in the Army, stud was the game back then. I went through chemo early last year and wasn't able to go back to work, so I have to live off my social security. I live in Texas and while I played for recreation, I started playing to supplement my income, mostly 1/2, now I play 1/3 and soft 2/5 games. You know Texas, all the games play bigger, a 2/5 is often 2/5/10, and most are match stack. I'm not able to put in a lot of hours per session. I started with a 2k bankroll and now have 16k, even with me spending a few hundred a month. Do you think I'm doing well, and do you think I should consider playing more 2/5?
Get a job 😪
I think playing live is the only thing that will help me now. Thought I was on a downswing but it seems more like I just can't beat the micros because I'm not a winning player..
I still study all my notes from your masterclass and I watch a lot of content online, but I have better games in SNG's. Still about break even or winning a few bucks. I don't know how much I should be spending on this before I should give up. Started with $300 and after 6 months I'm down to $97 lol this is the only hobby/skill I've ever tried to master that I wasn't successful in after 3-6 months
ALL OF THEM!
My father when I was 25 gave me the following advice. Do for a living what makes you happy, you will learn live within your means. No amount of money makes up for a miserable work day.
Sounds like solid advice
Long term, yes. But sometimes you have to grind and do something for the short term you don't want to do.
Lemme just go to the happiness store and work there.
There’s some pain involved with losing money. But there’s way more pain in working for a bad boss long term.
@@thirdman27 Yes. The mental toll is quite the load to bare.
I'm lucky. I'm 52 and have no kids and a rental house that brings in enough I live rent free. I only need to bring in 2-3 k a month to live comfortably. I am trying to play 30-50 hours a week and see what happens. Taking your advice with a proper bankroll finding a game I can beat and playing it a lot. Time will tell. Have an excellent bankroll app that tracks every session so I can see my hourly rate.
Good luck! Im almost in a similar situation/age
Awesome content, as always! Big thx, Jonathan! 🙏
I played poker 10 years ago, won a bit, stopped. Now I am starting again - started with 100$ on GG playing various 0.01/0.02 cash games and plan to move up to 0.02/0.05 if I can get to 200$ and stay there for a decent sample. I personally figure I would be a recreational player but I want to win when I do it. I appreciate all the help you are giving to newer players and experienced players alike - the game seems to have evolved a fair bit since I started.
Awesome, I'm happy to help and hope you enjoy the transition back into playing!
Then think of yourself as a for-profit player and study, rather than think of urself as a recreational player. Recs dont really care about being profitable.
@@theejayzeeable I don't understand all the hangups over pro vs rec player labels. For some recreational players showing that you can play profitably is part of the fun. People make furniture in their garage and sell it for a little extra money.
Can you play from Texas on GG? Deposit with credit card?
live games are easier
This is why you are a Champion! High level thinking on the felt! I learned so much just watching this content. I have been in most spots and had no idea how to maneuver through it. The other payers that know this are on a much higher level of thinking. I really need to learn more. I want to get to the next levels but can't figure out the right formula.
Love your videos, always look forward to you dropping a new one. Even if I'm familiar with the topic, it never hurts to brush up.
Awesome, glad you like them :)
Great information for new players & also a lot of good reminders/coaching for experienced players to hear again. Good video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thankyou Jonathan!
A ton of value. Thanks Jonathan
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it!
I'm jut getting started with all that poker thing and I realised I had not set a goal to myself. Thanks for the great video!
Awesome, so glad you enjoyed it!
I love Johnathan Little!
Great advice as always. Lots of great nuggets. For me personally "Don't be in a rush" and "Don't be afraid to move back down / don't listen to the ego" Not verbatim.
I started with 11$ playing 0.25$ sng. Grinded up till I hit 1$ bi sng. Built that up to about 80$. Took that out and transitioned to cash games (5nl).. Between sng and cash I’ve made over 200$. 700 sng games, and 15k hands in cash. All from an original 11$. This is all over the course of 4 months. I 20x’d my money in 4 months. That 11$ was precious to me. I’m now almost ready to move up to 10nl. Be disciplined, study, and try your very best to NOT tilt. I can confirm building a small bankroll is easy. I’m gonna come back to this video in Jan of 2025. I want my bankroll to be at least 10k. Hold me accountable to that. Gl at the tables and thank you Jon!
Edit: my winrate in sng was 20% ROI
And my current cash game winrate is 19bb/100. Maybe I’m running a bit hotter than usual. But with winrates that high it’s safe to say my winrate is something positive. Even though those aren’t really large samples.
Hey Jonathan just made the money, Day2 is on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. it's the WPT 500kgtd and if I bink it big I'm definitely(would like to) become one of your students. I have 136,0000 chips,about 10-15 BBs for day2. Thank you for all the easily available information so I can study up as much as possible. Good luck shuffle up
This is at the guitar hotel Florida btw lol
Good luck, you got this!
Great video most pros will say use 5 percent of your bank roll or 10 percent as some will say and it's great poker management
Tomayto, tomahto. Buy-ins dont exactly align to a 5% or a 10% bankroll percentage, but same difference when rounded out.
I am in the UK so may not be so relevant to much of your audience but I started my bankroll building journey at the start of February with £800 playing on Pokerstars in their MTTs (primarily freezeouts but some PKOs too) with buy-ins ranging from $4.40 - $11. I'm trying to become a "professional" poker player which to me just means making more than about £1,000 (around $1,400) per month to cover my living costs + a bit of a safety buffer. My bankroll atm is around £2,200 so a reasonable start but not making as much as I'd like to and I know that I've been running pretty well over the last few months too. The tournaments I play in usually have pretty large fields so I'm concerned that a prolonged downswing could in fact wipe out my bankroll entirely. I'm hoping to continue to build the bankroll over the next few months and invest in some training alongside that to hopefully gain an even bigger edge over the rest of the pool at my current stakes. Once the bankroll surpasses £5,000 I will start to take some shots at slightly bigger buy-in tournaments and try to satellite into $109 and maybe some $215 tournaments. Although i'm 28, I am, I guess the word is fortunate(?), to not have any dependents so cost of living and responsibilities are still minimal and I have the freedom to potentially pursue poker full time. Grateful for this video at this stage on my journey!
Good luck. Are you taking shots at live mtts too? Maybe the PS ones at the Hippodrome.
@@mig7290 hey man. Thanks for the message. I'm not planning on playing anything live for a while. If I take any shots it'll be in stuff like the Sunday million if I can win a satellite.
cool story. how is it going so far ?
Legend
I just saved this video I'm gonna try to listen cause I'm a idiot I'll get my bank roll to 150$ and then lose it all in a few hours right now my online bankroll is literally $6.66 so I'm gonna be playing freeroll and 25 cent sit n gos till I can play 2$ tournaments
The fact is most people don't have money or disposable income. Most players are way under bankroll "requirements". The first dream is to get to 200 to 500 per day average and survive. Avoiding regular job because we know it pays less on if you lose it's more. And getting up above that is what it is. At level it becomes a Great job.
Yep, you have to start tiny and grind it up. I started with $50 and never had to redeposit because I played within my bankroll.
Phrases I never expected to hear in 2022: "Luckily I had a bunch of gold sitting on the side, [so I] sold some gold"
Good luck in Paradise, Im confident you will grow my bankroll ;)
What would you consider is a large field buy in? Whats the cut off?
I FISH for a living on Lake of the woods and u can spend up to 500 a day in the right scenario.....🎯🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣
Do you have a video on setting goals for your poker? (For non recreational part-time and full-time poker player).
I really like this goal setting video by Pokercoaching Coach, Matt Affleck: th-cam.com/video/aY8WbW7Ycu4/w-d-xo.html
Is there an adjustement to make regarding bankroll for PKO tournament as the payout structure is flatter ?
Thanks for your videos !
Although the pay-out structure is flatter, win-rates are also lower due to some of the prize pool being taken out 'early'. I haven't looked in depth into bankroll requirements, but I believe both of these factors off-set each other, so it should roughly be the same.
is a 6$ rake at 1-3 beatable? I'm pretty sure that's what it was at Rivers Des Plaines Ill. It's a pretty Soft room in my estimation. I've only been there Twice because its 1.5 hrs from my house and 9$ in Tolls away but I have averaged 125$ an hour there but on a very small sample size of 11hrs. I really want to take a serious run at poker but the local poker room near me has been closed for Covid and I don't think is coming back. I'd have to travel or move.
The lowest limits on sites that shall not be named seem to attract a lot of really good people from poor countries so I'm not even sure I seem to win more when I move up a stake or two.
Here is my situation. I am a college engineering student. I am not planning on being a professional poker player. I want to get better right now and maybe make some money. I won my first tournament after watching your videos and had about 220 to spend. I’m playing min stakes rn and have about 175 left. I just want to get better with my current bankroll and practice and hopefully make some money.
Just wanted to put that out there if you have any advice for my specific situation
Awesome, that's great! I'd recommend to play low-variance online games so that you can get a ton of practice in. Perhaps small stakes online sit and go's or cash games!
Great advice!
So if I owe the IRS 300k and I build my bankroll to $35k then I 'll just tell em to wait a year or two and I'll give it to em. :)
Where do you play online in Florida?
The smaller live games can be quite soft and have much lower variance than the bigger games. Makes for a much steadier hourly rate.
That's funny boat with 7 motors lol
I'm just starting out my poker journey. Hoping to go pro . I just graduated from college , doing nothing really. I deposited 100 dollars on GG. Not sure I I want to play tournament or cash games. I have 12 hr everyday for poker. What's the best format for building a bankroll of 1000 dollars relatively fast? Cash or tournament?
Both are fine, although cash will be more consistent.
What would you recommend playing, full ring table or 6 max? And why?
Doesn't make much of a difference. Players at 6max are usually a little better than full ring though.
Learned a lot from this video. Im a college kid playing 1/2 and 1/3 cash game making $50 an hour so definitely got some good advice from this vid
Would you still stick to a 30-buyin rule for a soft game if the buyin is deeper max, say 250bb or even match the stack?
Only if it was a hard game. If it's soft, ur fine with a 30 x 100bb's BR since u have a significant edge.
There a local 1/3 that plays like a 2/5 or 5/10. Buy in is between 200 and 1500. Rake is high 10 per hand max because they have instant high hand pay out of 500 and a rake back monthly of 500 for 60 hours of play. And free drinks with food comps. It's double the rake of other casino but still very beatable. If most of the table buys in for 400 or more BB , should bankroll be based off that many BB or 100 BB?
If it plays like a 2/5, then ur essesntially playing a 2/5 game, so base a buy-in off of $5 x 100bb's.
Hey coach according to my minimal time I've been able to put in at the table. ( Full time job and two kids) I'm a pretty big winner at my 1/2 game here in Austin TX, where online is technically not legal. So I can't do much mic stake grinding. So were you saying that a decent time sample was like 600hrs?
You can play online in Texas. Play on ACR or you can even play on Global Poker. Plenty of mid stakes action on Americas Card Room(ACR).
The higher the # of hours, the better sample size. 600 is decent. Keep killing it.
So...goal is to play pete robl and a kid from pc at nl40k and put pokercoaching sticker on in the middle of the sesh and say i knew it would be a good table?
Joke4the algo.
Is a 25k bankroll and a 25k credit limit the same thing?😊
Hello Jonathan.
Thanks so Much for the content!
If I move up to 2/5nl to take a shot . And the buy in is $1k max should I buy in at 100bb or 200bbs?
Thank you! ❤
Do you think I can play 2 5 regularly(I buy in for $700 and I’m a winning player) if I have 30k yearly disposable income?
A $15k bankroll is needed up front, as in, now, not at the end of the yr. But if ur a winning player and u have enough of a bankroll to absorb some downswings, u might be ok.
Can you do a video just about beating the rake/drop? Both limit and no-limit. Seems to me it's next to impossible to beat at the Low Limits - this is especially true at the 4/8 and below limit level and double especially true in the places where they take a drop and not a rake (California).
How do you know if you're playing in a game that's impossible to beat? In CA, they drop $6 per hand - so if you win 3 pots per hour, you're paying 2.25 big bets in 4/8 per hour + tips. But on 2+2 the standard for a good player in limit hold'em is a win rate of 1 Big Bet per hour.
It's very difficult to say because even high raked games, if you're playing with tons of bad players, you can have a win-rate. I'm assuming the standard is 1 big bet/hour after the rake, so more like 3.25 big bets/hr and you lose 2.25 of that due to rake.
I think the best way is to talk with some of the best players in the specific game and look to have good stats on it. If you play the game for a large sample, you'll likely be able to find out if it's a beatable rake.
I would like to be a pro poker player if I could average 1k/week or more playing online PLO100 cash game. Is that possible?
Do you think $3-$6 with 10% rake (max $4, $2 jackpot) is beatable?
Probably.
44 y/o...never married (came close), no kids, tired of working for the man. Yeah, I want to go from amateur to semi-pro (and semi because I want other ventures). I can do the grind, as I did it before, but of course, as I get back into poker and start taking it very seriously....I hit ye old losing streak. And that's with all the amazing advice I've been getting. Even after watching the hands again, it's "I played it right, just lost". Ideally, I just keep learning, and hope my Aces learn to hold up against a fish who shoves on 6-4o.
question. ive been playing alot of play money poker stars and i play as if its real money and i do extremely well. being that i do so well on this would that transfer to cash money games? i know ive got alot of learning left to do but ive been soaking up everything on youtube i can about poker while playing 5-8 hours a night. i live in kentucky and i cant find any online games thatll let me play for real so i plan on going to the river boat and trying it there but i doubt they have low stakes there but we will see. are there any sites thatll let me play?
Ignite will let you play for real.
@@theriderider2204 will it? Whats the rake though?
I live in KY as well. You can play at ignition/bovada, and ACR. Don't know what boat you are talking about but if you are talking about Ceasars Indiana small stake nlh is 1-2. and 3-5. Limit holdem is 4-8 usually only on fri or sat night.
Also should add the rake at Ceasars is 5% capped at $5. Ignition is 10% I believe. Ignition is softer than ACR but ACR has rake back and ignition does not.
I live in Australia where online poker is illegal, and the only table at my casino is 2/5? I only have $1500 bankrolled how many BBs should I be playing.
That's too high, are there any smaller games that you can play there?
Pppoker bro!
What’s Good App to use to track playing time and winnings ?
I use Excel.
I’m a big fan of poker bankroll tracker on ios
Jason Huffma All the available apps track the same required basics, so theyre all good. They mainly just differ with advanced features that u likely wont use.
I have studied this discipline for moment from mental perspective. I must admit it attracts most people with low self-esteem, slaves of money with illussion of fame. When you put money and this "illussion of fame" aside what image you see. Someone who spends most his day hours sitting behind monitor or table clicking mouse or betting. This image presents inner emptiness and future depression issues for sure. If you care about yourself/have high esteem probably you've already figure it out for yourself if not I would't recomend this to anyone. Remember you are way way more valuable than all money on earth and fame too. So don't be slave of them if it's not worth it.
You must track your play/ hours, buy-in, cash out, stakes, and a running Balance,,,I use a calendar. I play mid day 10 a.m. to 3 if things are good, I still try to have fun and enjoy the company but still controlling all anxiety,,,,LMMFAO
How do you opening and calling ranges get affected by rake
The wider you open the more rake you pay.. Play less hands in general.
The higher the rake, the tighter and more aggressive preflop strategy you should use.
What’s a good cash game poker site?
Most poker sites have decent cash games assuming they do not let bots play and they do not rake too much.
What defines a 'buy in'? In a 5/10 game with a $3K cap, is 1 buy in $1K or $3K? What if we would always buy in for the max?
$5/$10 you need $1000 for a hundred big blinds equals 1 buy in so you need realistically $30,000 to play at that level.
how much all you said apply to me?
What jobs did you have in college
Nobody making $50k/year has $20k in disposable income. I seriously doubt $100k/year has $20k disposable.
Exactly. They might have a few hundred dollars extra every month which equals to $1-2 thousand
$50k/year is taxed 40% where I'm from. You'd have to be earning 100k/year to have 50k gross income.
I wanna make 1 million and still run my current business while I do it
Then do it!
The first time start playing poker seriouse it was challenge me and my friend who reach 1k first.. We started with 10 dollar. i won the challeng the sad part i lose it all in roulette lol...
LMAO 😂
I failed to explain to everyone that I can play just for a pleasure 55 cents buy in and that's it. Only because it is 3-4 hours maximum and I hate to play an online tournamnet for 8-10 hours like some people do. It is a torture. I can play live 10 hours. But prefer no more than 3-4. Once there was 13 hours day 1 of some main event. But seriously, why should I do something I dislike? Why people always need to do something professionnally that is really unpleasant. Anyone starts to play worse after 3-4 hours in front of the computer so why keep foing that and lose money? Poker might be a great profitable hobby. There are plenty things in the world one can do AND make some money in poker.
No timestamps?
im a recriational player, going to be a pro. yesterday i just started laughing of happiness when i realized i was limping out of position most of the time just to see the cards. that mistake was costing me a lot of money.
Man, 30k of disposable income each year… imagine
Golf can easily be 800 a day.
This should be forced to be watched by all people who ever want to play poker. From casual to someone pursuing pros.
U arent doubling your money every 2 months like suggested unless your doubling the stakes every 2 months . . so if he makes $100 in 2 months hes STILL gonna make $100 the following 2 months unless he doubles it. Simple Math right ? Maybe u said it wrong or werent thinking of it that way. 14 min in to the Video
Wrong. If you make 50k a year you pay 20k in taxes and 20k in expenses then you only have 10k or about 1k per month disposable.
100 bucks an hour is 200k a year full time.
g***d*t he hit the 1 outer... sigh... rebuy
I've been celebrating my bad beats as I got the money in good and if I keep doing that I'll come out ahead. I'm supposed to lose that 80-20 1 time out of 5. It's SUPPOSED to happen. It's a good thing.
Step1: stop losing.
Step 2: start winning.
@@G0DofRock Step 3: Profit!
@@skunksmisery Step 4: Play high stakes games with your entire bankroll vs a shady Russian mobster.
What mr little doesn’t tell u guys is rampant Cheating in cash games. Unless u going to cheat with a stable u will lose ur br to cheaters.
You could go to work? Poker is a blast, but if you make your living off of taking from others, there is no amount of giving that can make up for the harm caused to others. At least with tournaments.people are far less likely to bet the families rent. If you win from someone who looks overly distraught, then take them aside and give me my money back.
Such a disagreeable point to try and make. If I’m putting up the same amount of money and facing the same amount of risk, I should not feel like I’m “taking” someone’s money. Especially when that person is consciously making a decision to sit at a table to play a GAME where the score is kept with currency. No one is forcing that person to play a game where there is a risk to go busto. Don’t play with money you can’t lose, take responsibility for your actions, don’t blame others (or winners lmao)