Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
The general guideline for bankroll management
The general guideline for bankroll management may not apply to you. If you've beaten a certain stake level over a decent sample size, then you may not need as many as 30 buy-ins. You can possibly get away with 20 or less buy-ins depending on what stake amounts you're going to play. The higher the stakes, the more buy-ins you're going to want.
So a quick example is
So a quick example is if you're going to play 100NL online, then it's suggested for a $1 big blind game that you have at least $3k in your poker bankroll. If you haven't beaten a particular game in a couple of years, don't expect to just jump back in and beat it at the same level. You'll want to have some extra buy-ins, or possibly start a little lower than the previous limits you felt you could beat. In general the games tend to get tougher over time, and strategies and the amount of available knowledge change and increase.