Proper bankroll managment for sit n go tournaments really depends on what you want to accomplish. There is a natural variance that occurs in virtually every poker player’s bankroll. Even the very best professional players have bad runs of cards or suffer bad beats. It’s part of our game.
If you’re a recreational player then you may not mind funding a certain amount to your online poker account. At the end of any given month you may be either up or down depending on how your luck is running. You may not even have an expectation of profit and that is ok. A good starting point for recreational players who only play one or two games at a time is a bankroll of 20 buy-ins at the game you’re playing.
So if you play $10 + $1 sit n go tourneys you would want to have a $220 bankroll. When you’re playing solid sit n go poker and have built your bankroll to $440 you can move up to the $20 + $2 games. If you play multiple turbo games or more than 3 games at one time you should have at least 30 times the buy-in amount due to a higher variance in your win and loss rate.
