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title: "Bankroll and Mindset"
url: https://brunsonpokerpro.com/groups/bankroll-and-mindset/
description: "Variance, stake selection and judging a session by decisions. A study area of the Brunson Poker Pro network."
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# Bankroll and Mindset

Variance, stake selection and judging a session by decisions.

Study area:

Bankroll and Mindset

Discussions filed:

1

Suit mark:

open spade

Sequence:

7-week network order

Poker pays out over a long enough horizon that any short run of results says very little about how well the hands were played. This group covers variance as a concept, why a run of losing sessions is an ordinary feature of a game with a small edge rather than evidence of a broken strategy, and the habit of reviewing a session by the quality of the decisions taken rather than by the number at the end of it. It is written as a way of thinking about a game, not as guidance about money to put at risk.

## Discussions in this area

- Week 7 of 7 [Variance and losing stretches](https://brunsonpokerpro.com/discussions/variance-and-losing-stretches/) A run of losing sessions is an ordinary property of a game with a small edge, not evidence that the strategy broke.  7 min

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