I would like to jump in here and point out that I believe the Bankroll Management sticky quoted above is a little out of date.

I believe this was written when the games were a little softer and good players had a much lower standard deviation and higher winrates.

I can't really comment on NL guidelines as I have very little experience with it. But, 300BB (that's big bets, NOT big blinds) for LHE games is far far to low for todays games, especially so if you are playng shorthanded (eg 6max) games. I would recommend a minimum of 400BB for full ring and a minimum of 600BB for 6-max.

Obviously this does not mean if you have a $600 starting bankroll and start at 0.5/1 that you must drop limits as soon as you lose 1BB, the 600BB is there to absorb these swings. If for example you dropped to 450BB you might want to consider dropping down a level to rebuild your roll, you don't want to wait until you have the bare minimum for the level below before you drop down stakes for 2 reasons:

1) It will take much longer to grind back up a level
2) The patern could repeat and you may find yourself having to drop down another level fairly quicky.



My apologies if this post is structured terribly but I'm currently 5-tabling 6max LHE.