Bankroll Question...

[tolbiny]

Say i have enough of a Roll to play 3/6 shorthanded, but not 5/10. Unfortunately the site i perfer to play on only has 1/2 or 5/10.
If i played 2 tables of 5/10 and 2 tables of 1/2- would my swings be more in line with 5/10 or 3/6? And why?

[KingDan]

I think that would be worse than just playing 5/10. If you don't have the bankroll to play one table of 5/10, then adding a second cannot be right.
Unless you're trying to clear a bonus , why not just play on one of the main sites?

[Rudbaeck]

Visit Paradise, Stars or the Crypto rooms for 3/6 SH, and build your roll there. Or just play some 3/6 full and build it.

[EdSchurr]

Shouldn't make a difference, assuming no degredation of play as the number of tables increases. It's effectively like playing faster. Statistically, I think that means you should reach your average sooner, but you'll also have wilder swings sooner; that is, there are more chances to deviate from the mean, at the same odds... (gave my statistics book back to the library before I got a chance to read it)

[BruceZ]

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Say i have enough of a Roll to play 3/6 shorthanded, but not 5/10. Unfortunately the site i perfer to play on only has 1/2 or 5/10.
If i played 2 tables of 5/10 and 2 tables of 1/2- would my swings be more in line with 5/10 or 3/6? And why?

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Your bankroll requirement and risk of ruin depend on the ratio of your variance to your EV (see formulas here). Assuming no degradation in skill when you play multiple tables, when you play 2 games of 1/2 and 2 games of 5/10, your EV will be 4 times greater than 1 game of 3/6, and your variance will be 2*(10/6)^2 + 2*(2/6)^2 = 5.67 times greater than 1 game of 3/6. Therefore, your ratio of variance to EV will increase by a factor of 5.67/4 = 1.42. Since 1.42*6 = 8.5, this is equivalent to playing 8.5/4.25, if such a game existed, which is a little closer to 5/10 than 3/6.

[K C]

I assume you're normally playing 4 tables, and you want to split them up between these 2 levels. It's going to depend on how you do at 5/10. For instance, if you're losing there, the swings will be pretty big [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] That's a pretty big jump, from the 2 levels. Strange they wouldn't have something in between.

Keep in mind that you can play the smaller tables where you're at now, and some 3/6 tables elsewhere.

KC
kingcobrapoker.com

[sthief09]

why not take a shot at 5/10? how close are you to being rolled for that game?

[BruceZ]

this is equivalent to playing 8.5/4.25, if such a game existed, which is a little closer to 5/10 than 3/6.

Make that 4.25/8.5.

[timmer]

No way should you be playing 5-10 much less two tables of 5-10 as your volitility will inclrese significantly.

Jazbo's vp page addresses this concept in the form of multiplay VP games http://www.jazbo.com/
click on: N-Play Bankroll

I would venture that playing 2 or perhaps even 3 1-2 tables would be OK with your 3-6 bankroll.

you might throw in a 5-10 for S&G's ( not sit and go's ) [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]


timmer

[pzhon]

Sorry, you are confused. Playing multiple-hand video poker is completely different from playing multiple tables of poker. In video poker, the results are correlated between hands, so you need a larger bankroll to play 4 hands of $1/coin than 1 hand of $1/coin. In poker, the results between tables are not correlated. If your skill does not degrade, you need the same bankroll to play 4 tables as to play 1.