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EFFECTIVE POKER BANKROLL

When playing poker, the pot may hold no limit which is what we mostly see in tournaments.  Will you be willing to risk your stack of chips with a decent hand such as a suited ace and jack combination?  Your opponents have raised the betting further so we’re looking at a high amount of pot money at stake.  If you ask me, I’d fold.  This is a strategy I will share with you and see if it works for you as well.

Simple Rule

I have learned to fold when the stakes go high even if I got a fairly decent hand.  During the early stages of the game, that would be the best time to start bankrolling my stack of chips by playing as many hands as possible in the hope of getting a helpful board eventually.  This system has helped in making me accumulate chips which made it quite easy for me to get away with unproductive risks that go with gambling on a decent hand against higher pots.

When the Going Gets Rough

To illustrate my point, allow me to narrate a scenario where folding has saved me from losing a good stack of chips despite getting a decent hand during that time.  In this tournament, I was a close third in running for the most amount of stack around the table.  One short stacked opponent made his move by going all-in while holding a decent pocket pair of 5s.  The player ahead of me gambled his stack by calling the bet, thinking that the pocket pair can be no better than what the short-stacked player had.  I, on the other hand, opted to fold.  It turns out, the short-stacked guy had pocket jacks so he doubled up his stack off the high stacked player who had pocket nines.

It would be good to get out of one’s high horse from time to time.  In a close fight such as in poker, the player with the most chips gets to play dominant and dictate the tempo of the game.  A short stacked player may appear to be bluffing considering that he has nothing much too lose compared to other opponents.  Remember that you are dealing with more than just one opponent so it would be best to have sufficient bankroll to last you the tournament.  Folding if you got a decent card but you fear might not be better than another’s hand with higher chips at stake is a more conservative move and could save you the chips as well as from losing your rank in the table.