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Playing good poker is like shooting fish in a barrel

Lately my poker is really red hot! It is quite like shooting fish in a barrel. I am winning about 75% of my sit and go poker games right now. I am playing a combination of heads up and 9 players sit’n go tournaments, mostly at the $10 limits since my bankroll took such a large hit in the past few weeks.

I am building it back up quickly and will return to my $20 games soon I hope. This is my discliplined approach to bankroll management. When I lose and get below 20 buy-ins for the limit I am playing, I drop to a lower limit until I build my bankroll back up. Most players do now have the discipline to move down in limit like that, they only want to move up. But this is what you must do if you do not want to redeposit more money in the future.

I will be back in the $20 games soon and hope to continue improving my game on an ongoing basis. The players in the $20 games are not really that much better than the ones I encounter in the $10 games, maybe just a notch. But I will exercise good bankroll management so I do not bust out and have to buy in again. I need all my spare money for beer! Reloading is a bad idea if you want to play online poker profitably.

Here is my tip for the day. Do not get into the habit of depositing money into your poker account, playing until it is gone, and then rebuying. Use my simple tips for bankroll management to make sure you do not become one of the career losers in the poker rooms. It does not have to happen. If you keep on going down in limits instead of rebuying, ultimately you will reach the micro-limits, where it costs next to nothing to play. And these are easy to beat anyway, so you can move up from there.

Play using a solid poker strategy and you can enjoy the beer and fish too!