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Question 1: After a night's winnings, what percentage of the winnings are you supposed to put into your bankroll?

A: Well, this is a very difficult question to answer when playing online poker, as it completely depends on what your goals are at the end of the gaming session. If you have an adequate bankroll for the limit you are betting, then you can pretty much pocket any winnings you might make during the night. For example, if you are gambling $3/6 and you have a bankroll of around $1,800-$3,000, then I would say, have your winnings. A bankroll within this range is totally adequate for a winning player and there would be no need to roll winnings back into your bankroll. However, if your goal were to move up in limit, then you would like to start supplementing in order to build your bankroll. Obviously, the faster you build your bankroll, the more money you hoard each night, the faster you will reach that higher limit. It behoves you to hoard as high a percentage as you can and still afford your daily lifestyle, as the reason you would want to move up, presumably, is that you feel that you can make more money per hour at the higher limit. So, to take our $3/6 example, if you wanted to move to $6/12, you would need to double your bankroll. The faster you can do this, the better; so pocket only as much of your winnings as you need to cover your expenses in daily life.