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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1982815, member: 23910"]
If Bob only has $100 that he's willing to lose then he's got to be prepared for it to be a very short trip to the casino.   I've had 1/2NL sessions where I've bought in for $100 (the table maximum - The Star in Sydney has a horrible poker room FWIW), lost it on the first hand, rebought for another $100, lost that two hands later and been done and dusted in under 10 minutes.  If I only had the first bullet I would've only played one hand.

Keep in mind too that live games typically play bigger than online games.  It's perfectly normal in a live 1/2 game for the standard open raise to be $8-10 and for that raise to get a heap of callers.  In a game like that, $100 is an even shorter buyin than it is online.

If it's a good game (ie: there are lots of bad players) and you get unlucky and lose your first buyin, you're doing yourself a disservice by not having the funds available to rebuy and keep playing.  And if there are lots of bad players, then ideally you want to buying in for the maximum so you can win the maximum from the bad players.

So given all that yeah, I'd say that if Bob only has $100, then Bob probably shouldn't be going to play some poker - at least not in a casino 1/2 game.  Maybe play a tournament or something.
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