How to build your bank roll

If you are ever planning on playing poker at a serious level; building your bankroll is the most important part of doing that (assuming that you are a good player).  If you do not have a solid bank roll it will not matter how good you are, you will get into trouble.  If you do not know how to manage your bankroll you will get into trouble.  Having a good bankroll is like having poker insurance.  You should never play without that insurance.

The fact remains, that poker does have some luck in it.  If you are a good player you will win over a period of time and you will also be consistent.  Where the problem comes in is with the bad beats and unlucky instances in your poker career.  People talk about it all the time, how they lost with pocket aces, or this hand or that hand against a worse hand.  If you do not have a bank roll for instances like this you will be in a lot of trouble.  Not only that, but without that bankroll you cannot play the way you should play in order to achieve success.  The bank roll you have for poker is going to affect a lot of the way you play.

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