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One of the worst
things that can happen to a poker player is to be in a good game, have
a short run of bad luck, and run out of money It's a good idea to make
certain that you have enough cash to cover any normal runs of bad luck.
Generally I like to have between three to five buy-ins in my pocket for
a poker session. For a game where the normal buy-in is $100, I won't play
if I don't have $300 in my pocket, and I like to have $500.
That might seem like more money than a winning player would need, and it usually is, but the nature of poker is such that you will lose more pots than you will win. The amount of money in the pot when you do win will more than make up for the amount of money that you might lose in three or four losing pots. The fact remains that it's not unexpected to lose quite a few pots in a row. Often, in the better games where the players are a little loose and wild, you might lose a lot of pots in a row. Sometimes the pots get big enough in these games that you can break even by just winning one out of ten pots that you contest, but if you don't have enough money in your pocket to keep playing, you won't have that opportunity Bring enough money.
That might seem like more money than a winning player would need, and it usually is, but the nature of poker is such that you will lose more pots than you will win. The amount of money in the pot when you do win will more than make up for the amount of money that you might lose in three or four losing pots. The fact remains that it's not unexpected to lose quite a few pots in a row. Often, in the better games where the players are a little loose and wild, you might lose a lot of pots in a row. Sometimes the pots get big enough in these games that you can break even by just winning one out of ten pots that you contest, but if you don't have enough money in your pocket to keep playing, you won't have that opportunity Bring enough money.