Bankroll & Staking Calculator
Size your entries so variance never knocks you out. Set a bankroll and a daily-risk cap and we'll split it across cash and tournaments.
Suggested GPP sizing: about $0.50 across ~20 small entries rather than one large bullet — sampling more of the outcome distribution. Recalculate weekly from your current bankroll, never risking more than 10% on any single slate.
Why bankroll management is the edge
Variance removes underfunded players before skill ever matters. The standard guardrail: risk no more than ~10% of your bankroll on any single slate, with most of it in cash games where the field is softer and outcomes less swingy.
Within tournaments, prefer many small entries to one large one — twenty $0.50 bullets sample twenty points of the outcome distribution; one $10 entry samples one. Recalculate your cap weekly from your current bankroll, never on emotion.