Building Your Poker Bankroll From Scratch
Building a bankroll from scratch is not an easy task. It takes a great amount of time and patience. One of the biggest causes of a poker player’s fatality is their ego. Playing stakes that are too big for your bankroll is a huge risk and not a recommended way to play.
Doing this puts pressure on you when playing your game and, it is this that will get in the way of you playing the way you usually would and should. I for one am an example to prove that a bankroll can be built from a small deposit and it won’t take as long as you think until you’ll be playing the stakes that you want to.
I deposited $50 in December 2005 and began playing $5-$10 6 seater Sit and Go’s. The standard of game in these stakes is weak to say the least but if you wait patiently and play your game to its best, you shall come out on top. Once id won and built my bankroll up to around $150-$200 I started playing $20 Sit and Go’s and continued this until I managed to get to the point where I could sit in to a 2/4 NL cash game and start playing the stakes I wanted to play and earn money that’s actually worth talking about.
In total it took me a month and a half (of constant playing) to take an initial $50 deposit up to $9000 where I started playing stakes that better suited my ego. It’s not a myth that you can build a bankroll from nothing, as I mentioned earlier, its all about ego and playing the stakes that your bankroll will allow you to play.
If you have the time and patience to stick to this then you are sure on your way to a more successful online poker career, as the famous saying goes “Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day”.
