Topic: My Experience on Bulk Bankroll vs Partial Bankroll (Read 333 times)

Same here although my only difference with you is that I don't want to play longer. Despite of a limited bankroll, I still make sure that I am not betting too small so that when I play on a slightly higher multiplier and when it hits, I still get something decent.

Why did you lose instantly when you play with a much larger balance? Did you accidentally push that max bet button? Because, I can't find any reason for you to lose instantly in the game, other than that. I know these things because I and other gamblers do already experienced it. This is why many crypto casinos now have the option to disable the max bet feature. In gambling it's also important to not be greedy but we must learn to stop so that the money that we already win won't turn into a stone/dust.

When you are really just that going for longer duration then you would really be that minding on  how you would really be making your capital to last up as long it should which it would really be pertaining
on trying to save up or making minimal amount of bet on each roll or bet.

It doesnt really matter though because not all would really be that impulsive and having that good control when it comes to their capital.Sustaining or trying to make the duration as long
as possible.It is understandable that you neither be doing those impulsive actions and that would be situational.

I think if the purpose is playing for long, it doesn't apply effectively with the small bankroll and limited budget at most cases.

If you are in a small bankroll and want to play longer, what you need to do is just bet around the minimum amount allowed.

Although in that way, you have to accept that it will take time to feel the profit and you need tons of luck to hit good multipliers to somehow feel the profit when betting in a small amount.

Partial or small bankroll is still better for me especially if you have a limited budget and wanted to play longer.
I guess this will always depend on how much risk you can take and how much money you have during that time. I did some bulk bankroll before, and I just lose in an instant that's why I started to limit my bet at a small amount and just enjoy the game while not expecting to make money that much.

almost the same story but my experience in roulette.
when I use the money I made from the signature campaign around $50 I will easily make a profit of around $100 to $150 with a base bet of $5 - $10.
but my mistake was when using a betting budget of $ 50 and getting a profit for example $ 100 I will continue to bet until I want to get $ 300 and I continue to continue my betting on roulette in the end all the winning money and my budget are used up.

but when using a $10 or $20 betting budget I am more careful and enjoy every bet I make to $100 and when I get to $100 I stop and withdraw my winnings.


the conclusion from what I experienced was that when we gamble using a large budget, of course we will chase big wins with a bigger base bet. because it is the nature of greedy gamblers when holding a big budget.
but when using a small budget for gambling, we will definitely value our budget more by betting small bets and betting carefully.

When we see that we have a large balance in our account, we will want to gamble with big money because we will assume that it will be okay to lose that amount. After all, we still have more money in our account. It will also make us greedy, especially when we can win big wins. It will make us bet even more. But the reality is that we will lose more money, even the winning money that was in our wallet, we will use it to bet.

So instead of having that kind of experience, I prefer to prepare some money and use it for gambling but not immediately use it. That way, if I use the minimum bet, I can gamble a bit longer and who knows, I can get a decent return or break even.

That is a pretty nice return, hope you can keep it up this year. Like you I am also using a fixed gambling balance each month, but mine is a bit lower, I usually only use only 100 USD per month for gambling. Whenever I make a profit I take half of the profit for saving, and the rest I allow myself to increase my bankroll for the next week. Your partial bankroll approach seems much better in my opinion, you are betting on higher winning chances and manage to get a higher profit as well. I think it's best to try and reduce your risk of going bankrupt as much as possible. For me poker is the best game to make a consistent profit overtime, I am also using a partial bankroll approach and keep sticking to the smaller blind tables. Its better to   stick to a winning strategy and making small gains to our bankroll than risk losing everything in one bad streak.

This is a well-considered and common practice of playing with a small bankroll, although I very rarely play, but I also adhere to the same tactic of not putting all available funds on the line, especially since I am not some kind of advanced player, but sometimes greed can interfere and change plans, but put up to 20% of the available free means it is reasonable.

Small bankroll works fine to me, it's not because I always lose if I play using bulk bankroll and I always win if I play using partial bankroll, but small bankroll will control your emotion and you have nothing to lose. When you're use all of your bankroll, you will play with under pressure and you're only chase to win which is not good for your mental health. It's better to allocate 5-10% of your money to gamble.

None. I deposit a small amount, I gamble, if that week I win an amount I consider sufficient, I withdraw it, and if not I gamble until I run out of funds and deposit again later.

Using bankroll management in negative expected value games can only make your money last longer, not win or not win.


Another way of putting it is that each roll is mathematically independent of the previous one.

The only possible advantage I see for one bankroll strategy over another is the psychological effect:


Often, more than luck or probability, it is our emotions that screw up the results. If you find that the second bankroll management strategy works for you, use it instead of the first, but it will probably give you better results because it makes you play more rationally and not because it gives you better results mathematically.

In general, I have eventually adopted an approach that makes the most of those strokes of luck. They're not around all the time. So when winning, especially if on a streak, I often think it's best to raise bets. There is confidence instead of worrying you might lose. And then there's the money to bet. But when that luck is gone, it's about time to reduce bets. Going back to step 1 is the way. But I don't maintain my bet when I'm winning. That would be boring and it feels like it's a waste of opportunity.

My betting style is similar to your partial bankroll, it's always best to place the same amount regardless of the outcome so I don't feel the need to recover the loss on my next round but i'd sometimes do a bet increase whenever I feel confident about the next bet like for example if I notice the dealer is handing out several aces or 10s on blackjack. I also tried to do that bulk bankroll style before and doubling up on a loss is one of the worst strategies for me because most of the time i'll just lose as it only takes a small losing streak to easily

This was crazy but sometimes, luck really comes to us depending on our deposited bankroll on that particular session. In my case though, I do feel lucky sometimes with the partial bankroll. That's the time I need to discipline myself on whether I will still continue to play when I already hit a good profit.

Partial bankroll to me is always my habit. I do win. But if only I have do more extras, I really prefer doing a bulk bankroll and test my luck.

The larger the bankroll, the more chances of winning to me.

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Even with no direct involvement in our winning chances, I'm one of those guys who believes that luck is always at me when I choose to play at the start with bulk and decent bankroll and not a small one. I know that in gambling, there is a famous quote that the longer we play, the more chance of losing but in my case, the longer I play, the more I do have luck and that was proven.

Just go with the flow then and will keep that gambling behavior of mine.

To be honest, I've rarely played the game you play.  especially to play Blackjack, I can't remember the last time I played it. but the essence is the same, that when we visit a casino, it is none other than to gamble, regardless of the type of gambling. I mostly bet on football, or, play slots which are easier without having to use any skills and just hoping for luck.

Referring to what you told in this thread, I guess it is a matter of habit. I mean, patterns that become your habits. either when you play with a big bankroll, or, a small bankroll.  the difference is, when you play with a big bankroll, you lose a little bit of control because you aim for more wins. but the opposite happens, when you use a small bankroll. you play more carefully, because as you say. if you bet carelessly, the game will end quickly.

I don't want to teach you, or patronize. sometimes, realizing it or not, the strong urge to target or want to get big wins has always been our problem. which in the end, we become greedy and careless. So, your experience is our experience. however, at least, you have to change the pattern that becomes your habit. at least, you are not motivated to always make big profits every gambling session. I myself only play with a small bankroll when playing slots. because the winning ratio we have, is very small. but for football betting, I can bet with a big bankroll. but it depends on which team will compete, and what is the probability of winning that I will get from a single betting session.

Some casino will start with less money as the bank payroll.But they was honest on all winners and pay them them heavy 1$ winning.Then they will do of new name on the industry.Because for the sending of less amount of fees may be high sometimes.The casino should not skip the less winning us people,they may be the person without luck .The winning from each it was make sense,the I people involved in the gambling websites should take the care of winning money also.

Not just with small bets, but if you got redeemed those free bets and put it in the line, as you have said, you just pick that parlay with high odds and then you just don't care, and later you found it that you won. And now that's where it become interesting because you have a new set, like x5 or x10 of that small amount. But it seems that you run out of luck and it's like someone is pulling you not to win as it get harder. And so we think that small amounts will do in the beginning for most of us and just pick up just decent odds next for that win.

Those calculations from the house edge are very theoretical. Blackjack is a game with the rather low volatility but its volatility is not smaller than a dice game. And losing 10 hands in a row, or 30-40 hands over one hour is not rare at all. Then it means you can easily lose $100 in less than two hours with $5 hands if you are in a bad day. It's just 2 consecutive hours with 30 losing hands out of 50 :
 30 x $5 - (50-30) x $5 = $150 - 20 x $5 = $150 - $100 = $50 for one hour
 $50 x 2 = $100 for two hours
It's enough to wipe out an average bank roll of a random gambler.

Limitation and extreme discipline and control would be always the key on which it doesnt matter how big you are using as a capital or whatever behavior that you are trying out to follow.If you arent that good on

handling your emotions then those plans and targets wouldnt really be followed because they could anytime would be change if you have put up into your mind that you wouldn't care if you do lose all of those bankroll
in shortest time as possible.Each of us does really have that kind of behavior which would differ on each other.

Important thing on here is that you should really just that spend on the amount which you can afford to lose.

I agree that our behavior towards betting regardless of our bankroll has a huge affect on our winning results. If ever we use partial bankroll if we continuously chase our losses just to recover we will surely end up with worse losses. I've tried applying both and the result still relied on my luck.
I think it is still important to put limitations and try to control ourselves from compulsive betting especially if we are on hype by our emotions. We can stay focused but be mindful or our bets and take control of our greed.