Always play within your limits - NEVER repeat never - play with money you can't afford to lose. Set yourself a limit either monthly (best after initial deposit) or at least a total amount you can afford to lose - and don't go beyond it - if your happy to play with what you'd have spent on a couple of nights at the pub then set that as your monthly limit on your account (most poker rooms have settings for this). Managing to blow your annual budget in one night doesn't bode well - face it, your shark food and you need to read up and improve before you throw more cash away. If you set a monthly recreational budget then you will either lose money affordably or you will win steadily - your will have a 4king good time either way. Never try to win back your loses by cashing up the rent or anything else you need - you won't play optimally and you will surely only lose more. Dont blow your bankroll Ideally you should aim to have 10 / 20 times the tournie entry fee or max buyin for the games you want to play - so for $5+0.5 SnG's this would mean a bankroll of $110 or for a $25 max buy-in 0.25 cash game thats would be at least $ 250. This is basically to give you room to play at your chosen limit with sufficient funds to balance out the fluctuations ie. keep going when you've lost some. I would suggest making a good sized initial deposit so that your not playing yourself into a corner from the start - constantly having only enough for 1 or 2 games left will mean you play poorly and end up cashing up again. So a realistic first deposit balanced against your monthly limit so that it averages out within your budget. So your doing ok in the low stakes games - why not head up a level or two? If your finding fish and making money moving up too soon could be costly, your suddenly gona find your shark food and that nice little margin you've built up will be gone - remember poker is one long game not just one session or one hand - as shown earlier you need to have sufficient to balance the fluctuations in your bankroll. Moving up a limit of two increases the required bankroll as well as the potential profits. Make enough money at a lower limit to cover the
10/20 times rule - then move up.
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