Bankroll and Mindset

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.