• If your bankroll is $100 and you win $50 while playing blackjack for real money, cash out the extra $50 and stick to your original bankroll. Don’t bet your winnings, especially not on one hand. Instead, cash them out and continue playing with your set bankroll. Keep Track of Your Bets. Never bet all the money you have at once.
• The bankroll is referring to the amount of cash you choose to bring to a live or online casino for advantage play in a session of blackjack. Players are required to be able to use bankroll management techniques in order not to go broke when sitting down at the blackjack tables.

• Blackjack Bankroll Strategy
• Blackjack Apprenticeship Recommended Blackjack Bankroll
• Poker Bankroll Management Calculator
• Blackjack Bankroll Size
• Blackjack Bankroll Management Calculator
• Up And Pull Betting Method

Blackjack Bankroll Strategy

This poker bankroll calculator allows you to work out which limits you should be playing at in poker depending on how much money you have in your bankroll.

Multiply that by 150, and your session bankroll should be at least $187. But if you play ten hands per game, then each bet is $12.50, and the session bankroll should be at least $1,875. Similar caveats apply if you cover a lot of numbers in roulette and craps, or play two or three spots in blackjack. In their pursuit of learning perfect blackjack strategy, some players often neglect to cover bankroll management. But just like with any other casino game, blackjack bankroll management is extremely important, and something that players should definitely study extensively. Understand which blackjack session game is your best / worst. Easy to use and understand. Bankroll management. Statistical analysis in Microsoft Excel format, blackjack statistics and data. Dynamic blackjack graph and chart: Blackjack Card Counting Software. When playing online, use our Blackjack Real Time Analyzer to make the perfect card.

This calculator is based around the rules of basic no limit Texas Holdem bankroll management, which are:

• You should have at least 20 times the buy in for cash games.
• You should have at least 40 buy ins for SnG tournaments.

This bankroll calculator will tell you; which limits you should be playing at, how many buyins you have for that level, how much more money you need to win to move up to the next level and advice on how to approach the games at your limit.

The bankroll calculator.

Quick Stats

Advice

How to use the bankroll calculator.

1. Enter your bankroll to the nearest Dollar (no decimals).
2. Choose your game type. (only works for NL Holdem cash games at the moment).
3. Let the calculator know if you are a US or a Non-US player (for room recommendation reasons).
4. Click 'Calculate'!

Blackjack Apprenticeship Recommended Blackjack Bankroll

Make the calculator better.

If you have any comments about the calculator or would like to offer advice on how it can be improved, I would love for you to shoot me an email at greg[at]thepokerbank[dot]com. I would really appreciate any feedback that you can give to help improve the bankroll calculator.

Poker Bankroll Management Calculator

Go back to the handy Texas Hold'em tools.

• Appendices
• Miscellaneous
• External Links

Introduction

Blackjack Bankroll Size

There are some sources that address the question of the probability of doubling a bankroll before losing it, in a card counting situation. Ken Uston's Million Dollar Blackjack, to name one. This appendix shall not recover that issue. However, I am often asked about how much the basic strategy player's bankroll should be, given a targeted number of hands to play. This is especially practical if the player must play a certain number of hands to earn an online casino bonus.

The rules assumed for these tables are six decks, dealer stands on soft 17, player may double on any two cards, player may double after splitting, player may resplit to three hands, no surrender, dealer peeks for blackjack. Under these rules, the house edge is 0.4140%.

Let's look at an example of how this table can be used. Assume that the player makes a deposit of $1000 to an online casino, and is required to bet through $5000 in action. If the player is to willing to play through 500 hands, then his average bet size would be $5000/500 = $10. The number of betting units would be $1000/$10 = 100. The table shows the risk of ruin is 0.01% for 102 units, so would be just over 0.01% for 100. Perhaps this is too conservative, so the player considers playing 200 hands. The bet size is now $5000/200 = $25. The number of units is $1000/$25 = 40. Interpolating the table shows the risk of ruin would be 1.5%.

Number of Hands to Play

Risk of Ruin	100	200	300	400	500	600	700	800	900
50%	7	11	14	16	18	20	22	24	25
40%	9	14	17	20	23	25	27	29	31
30%	12	17	21	25	28	31	33	36	38
20%	15	21	26	31	34	38	41	44	47
10%	19	27	34	39	44	48	53	57	60
5%	22	32	40	46	52	58	62	67	71
4%	23	34	42	49	55	60	65	70	75
3%	25	36	44	51	58	64	69	74	79
2%	27	38	47	55	62	68	74	79	84
1%	29	42	52	61	68	75	82	88	93
0.5%	32	46	57	66	74	82	89	95	101
0.25%	35	50	61	71	80	88	96	102	109
0.1%	38	54	67	77	87	95	104	111	118
0.01%	45	64	79	91	102	112	122	131	139

Blackjack Bankroll Management Calculator

Number of Hands to Play

Risk of Ruin	1000	1200	1400	1600	1800	2000	2500	3000
50%	27	30	32	35	37	40	45	50
40%	33	37	40	43	46	49	56	62
30%	41	45	49	53	56	60	68	75
20%	50	55	60	65	69	73	83	92
10%	64	70	76	82	88	93	105	116
5%	76	83	90	97	104	110	124	137
4%	79	87	95	102	108	114	129	143
3%	83	92	100	107	114	121	136	151
2%	89	98	107	114	122	129	145	161
1%	99	108	118	126	134	142	160	177
0.5%	107	118	128	137	146	154	174	192
0.25%	115	126	137	147	156	166	187	206
0.1%	125	138	149	160	170	180	202	223
0.01%	148	162	175	188	198	212	236	261

Up And Pull Betting Method

Methodology

The tables above were created by random simulation. I have been asked several times for a general formula for other situations. Unfortunately there isn't any that I know of. Risk of ruin problems are mathematically usually very complicated. It is easier and more convincing to run a random simulation instead.

Written by: Michael Shackleford