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Message: [QUOTE="Noodeloo, post: 7302680, member: 1031314"] I would like to have another go at answering because rereading my silly attempt at a joke >> It REALLY got me thinking about the question again! How would I build a meaningful bankroll? It really depends on what meaningful means to me? Being able to play poker whenever I want? Yes, I would like to play whenever I would like to. What amount of money would be meaningful to me? I suppose this is where the question "what is a meaningful bankroll?" really hit me hard. This is a bit harder for me to answer. I play for fun, although I do take the game as seriously as I can as an amateur and try to "beat the game". That means playing at a volume to actually experience variance and having a bankroll that can manage these naturally occurring swings when I play. When you understand it's never the same game, no matter what stakes you are playing, because every situation is unique, it really makes you appreciate how much work is required to understand the game of poker and how you & others interact with the game to keep making a profit. I play mostly low-stakes multi-table tournaments, but dabble in cash games also. My bankrolls are quite small as I don't like to keep too much money in poker client accounts, and I try to have at least 100 buy-ins for tournaments I play, although I'm not that strict with the odd shot take. The problem with the word meaningful is that I know what that is in my heart; it means love of the game, and that just means enough money to play the game in front of me with the people around me. In my mind, the question is corrupted by thoughts of the future of money and what money will mean to people in the future. It makes me question what a meaningful bankroll really is in the future. I think a meaningful bankroll for me is just what I said above, but it does make me think I should play more at Coin Poker and try to develop a bankroll to be able to withdraw a "meaningful" amount of bitcoin. It's a bit silly, but my idea is I would then progress on my mission of getting the world to half their bitcoin with each other until we all "have a bit"! Simply by us talking to each other and "giving a bit of our time & energy to each other" over the internet & irl. In some form of game that hasn't been decided yet - cos that's how I think bitcoin works. It's a kind of game of energy. Essentially, that is what money is in my mind - stored value that took energy or human endeavour to be realised, whether that be exchanging our time for labour in a job or if you're lucky and rolled enough, to play poker for a living and live the poker dream. Only when I know we have solved world poverty would i really feel comfortable gambling against other people online, where I don't know how much money they have and how much money they can afford to lose. I suppose you could say I think about the morality of money a bit. I play at small stakes, and I think I've always assumed people are playing with money they can afford to lose because games don't cost that much, but writing this, I am questioning my own morality of playing against players who might actually need my donations at the table! I always hope that people are having fun, and when the fun stops, they stop playing poker! Stay safe when gambling and never play with more than you can afford to lose! I suppose I'm a long-time understander of Bitcoin, having bought a bit for novelty value back in 2013. I've experienced its rise in price over time, but I'm more interested in it as a use case. It's a protocol that uses computer energy to run a hashing algorithm to make blocks of secure information - every 10 minutes or so. I believe it's going to be a really useful tool to prove things between humans moving into the future. I suppose I'm a big believer in the future, but I also believe that there are problems in the world that always need solving now, like how am I going to build this meaningful bankroll? Well, to start, I'm going to float my world-changing ideas with my CardsChat community and see how they feel. Then I am going to invest in all the responses I get and watch my roll of comments grow and bank any laughs I get from my rubbish jokes along the way (recycled rubbish, of course, because I love recycling rubbish) . I am also thinking that I am going to start streaming this as a challenge - "how to build a meaningful bankroll?" because it touches on two issues close to my chest, money & mental health (meaning) and provides an even more interactive platform to have this discussion and try to answer the question in "real time". I hope this reads well, finds you well and gets you thinking. All the best for the future, CardsChat people. Noodles (edited so it reads a bit better). [/QUOTE]

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