Jessica Lunsford Blog

It seems simple enough when deciding how much money you should bring to a poker table: As much as you can afford to lose, right? Well, yes and no.

The fact that your bankroll can fall as well as rise is known as variance. The more aggressive your pokerstyle, the greater your variance will be. But however cautious you are, you will experience ups and downs.

Here’s an example for a beginner: You sit down at a $1 table with $20 and win a couple of big hands. All of a sudden you are winning by $70 and, well, this game is easy, right? But for every lucky beginner, there is a much greater chance that will go bust before you win anything.

This is where bankroll is critical. You need to have a bankroll that allows you to have a bad run without going bust. If you go bust, you never get to see the upswing that will likely follow if you are playing solid poker. Inevitably, not managing your bankroll, no matter how good you are, will result in failure. It’s just simple math. The house always wins. Ask any World Series of Poker champion, and he or she will tell you that they have gone over their bankroll and lost any winnings in their past.

Generally, for beginners, you should never be playing with more than 10% of your bankroll. For example, if you deposit $100 into your account, you shouldn’t take more than $10 to any game.

Thus that should decide what table you play. A sound strategy is you should buy in for at least 50 times the big bet (so if you only have $100, stay at a $2 table max), and have a bankroll of 100 times the big bet.

It’s also important to stick at your bankroll limit. Unfortunately in online poker it’s easy to just use your credit card and keep betting, where perhaps at a casino you can leave your credit card at home and just bring a certain amount of cash. In online poker, it’s more imperative to keep your ego and impatience in check. As a way of perhaps monitoring yourself, keep a daily diary of your sessions. This will help you determine if you are a winning or a losing player and how often you win. You also might want to consider using a service that will monitor your playing patterns and winnings/losses.

Inherent human inadequacies abound in multitudes and are perceptible in any activity that one puts forth even the slightest of inquiries. And to even the greatest believer and ardent supporter of the positive nature of humans, this cold reality can easily lead to utter disappointment and a misguided blanket judgment on even those not guilty of the particularly applicable misdeed or digression.

How does any of this possibly relate to RuneScape? Well, as is most certainly one of the desired goals of the online adventure game, the virtual world RuneScape shares several characteristics with our very own world of blood, dirt and greed. This is of course obvious. Players live, die, need money, need health, interact with others, etc, etc. But, to me, this hardly begins to scratch the surface of what ties together the worlds of the solar system’s 3rd planet and that which resides within the 1’s and 0’s of your computer. To me its all about human nature; and unfortunately, as a natural cynic I often times find myself assuming the worst as a rule and anything better than that as an exception.

I must again inquire: How does any of this relate to RuneScape? What I’m saying is that in this real world of ours the historic injustices and systematic inequalities have steamed from such a large and long tide, that it’s as unlikely that any truly good news in the way of humanity is as fictional as a rabbit that misplaces eggs to celebrate the resurrection of some guy from Nazareth. But, here we have an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, to start all over again, but do it right this time. We have a virtual world that in fact even comes equipped with rules in order to maintain the societal fairness that we all publicly pronounce as important to us in the real world. Great. What could possible go wrong. What? Human nature–that’s what.

It would be impossible to move through the world of RuneScape for even a minuscule amount of time without gaining full appreciation for how many RuneScape hacks there are out there. The hacks are out there to cheat their way into better, undeserved stats and to cheat you out of yours. They want to make real world money, by hacking into the system and changing stats. And all of this unavoidably creates an unfair and unjust experience for the multitudes that do not engage in RuneScape hacking. Sound familiar? It should, its art imitating life…or, maybe more like, life using art to further engage in the disgusting characteristics of life.

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