Beginner's Guide to lose your whole Bankroll part 1

Hey people, I have nothing to do right now so I'm starting my series of guides with how to lose your bankroll quickly. Many people will think this post is useless but it would tell you what not to do. Poker is a mental activity. If you do the following things you will lose money really quickly.

1. On a bad day (Fighting with the boss, wife, friend, whatever) play higher Levels.

When you have a bad day play high Levels, and since you are stressed on what happened during the day you will not think of what your doing, but on why your boss almost fired you. This will certaintly make you lose your bankroll.

2. Play with your entire bankroll

Playing with your entire bankroll makes you think that you will play tighter and better. Well, keep thinking like this and you will not have a bankroll to play with!

3. On a bad poker day, keep playing

Unless your lucky, this would make you lose your bankroll. You may start well but if you are on a bad roll, keep playing. You will keep making the same loose bets and stupid mistakes. Eventually after a while you will lose your bankroll.

4. Invest your bankroll on one tournament

Hey, if a tournament is offering 63 places paid out of 3000 people, your almost certain that you will not make it. You need to play really tight but there's also the luck factor. If you got a 20 dollar bankroll, invest it all on a tourney and almost surely you will lose your bankroll.


Adopting this tips with make you lose either a lot of money or your entire bankroll. My advice rookies is to avoid them. Play low level tourenys and ring games. If you play well your bankroll will grow. I got this tips and many more from experience. Expect part 2 come soon

I Agree mostly with what you have said. Its a good guide, however the above point a disagree.

Playing with your entire bankroll, may, not be advisable from an experienced poker players perspective, but playing as a beginner, its not such a bad thing, and has many benefits.

As a beginner player if you play with your entire bankroll it will make you player tighter It will prevent you from playing silly hands, and hopefully teach you how to play better poker, as a beginner losing your bankroll is enevitable, playing with 10% or 100% of your bankroll wont change this. I wouldnt recommend a beginner plays for real money anyway. I think a much better way of learning the basics is playing for play money, enter freerolls join a site like this which is going to teach you how to play better poker.

Playing as an experienced player you should never take more than 49% of your bankroll to a table. Taking your entire bankroll can force you to make silly folds. for example. say you are holding.

and

Flop comes



And the other guy checks, and you raise 10% of your chips.
and he comes over the top of you by 50% are you going to call or fold? It is a much harder decision to make if you are risking your entire bankroll, as an experienced player.

Zaphor, I agree with the fact that playing with the entire bankroll makes us play tighter. However I believe that for beginners this should be avoided. beginners should play with less that 30% of their bankroll, since they tend to think that their hand is best and eventually they bet loose and they lose the hand. It's true that they play loose when they have money on the cashier just in case they lose all their money on the table. But I believe that beginners would still learn and not risk their entire bankroll on the process.

If beginners are going to play with 30% of their bankroll which probably, as they are beginners will not be very big they will have to choose their table very carefully, it will be much easier for a better player to play against them if they have a smaller stack, it also tends to speak of a poorer player, bringing less than the maximium of chips to a table. But hey, its up to the player. Choosing the table would def. be the hardest thing, so that they can play effectively without risking their bankroll on one hand or being pushed out easily.

Beginners, tend, and usually do play more aggressively, by taking a smaller buyin to a ring game, it will make when they are aggressive, an easier call.