Table Stack

With a too low table stack the player is at a disadvantage. It doesn't allow the player to play agressiv and loose to many pots. Other players can raise or reraise preflop. With a low table stack only the best hands can call this. Hands with "potential" can/should not be played!

Other players with a bigger table stack can "buy" the pot buy simply raising and/or reraising so it becomes too expensive vor the low table stack.

No limit Poker: The table stack should be minimum 100 times the Big Blind. Example on Texas Hold'em No limit $1/$2: $2 x 100 = $200. So on a Texas Hold'em NL table with $1/$2 the table stack should be minimum $200.

Limit Poker: The table stack should be minimum 50 times the Big Blind. Example on Texas Hold'em Limit $1/$2: $2 x 50 = $100. So on a Texas Hold'em table with $1/$2 the table stack should be minimum $100.

Limit the loss

If a poker player hits a bad beat, chances are high of loosing his whole table stack or even worse: his whole money. To avoid this every poker player should think about how many money he "want" to loose before joining a table. Let's say said player has a bankroll of 2000$ and want's to play Texas Hold'em $1/$2 and joins the table with $100. Now he thinks $100 is a lot of money and limits his maximal loss to $50. If he looses $50 he quits the table! No matter what! He sure is angry about the loss, but it's better to loose $50 than the whole table stack of $100. He should take a break and try again later or even on the next day.

The profit

Every poker player shoud think about his profit. How much profit does he want? Does he want to win $10 in the whole session, or does he want to win $10 per hour? Every player should have a goal - for example: double the money. If he doubled his money, he quits or if he really has a good run, he should play with 20% of his winnings. Until they are doubled up again. If the good run is going on he should play for another 20% of his entire winnings (winnings from round 1 and 2) until it's doubled up and decide again if he stops or play for another 20%. But if he looses the 20% he should stop right there, no matter how angry he is and how hard he want's to win some money.

Discipline

Discipline is very very important at poker. Bad Beats can be hard for players. They loose (a lot of money) and get angry. They just WANT to win the loss back and try even harder. Probably playing bad hands "just to see if they hit something". Thats a bad, a very bad, idea. Well yes, maybe the player is very lucky and wins something, maybe. But it's more likely the playeer looses everything. So if a player hit's a bad beat he should just stop playing, no matter what.