I would be terrified with a 5% chance to go bust. I prefer working in the .1% range. As you say the games are all different, but here's a ballpark BR to give you about a 1 in a 1000 chance of going bust.
Quarters: $20,000
Dollars: $100,000
This assumes you are playing with about a 2.5% edge on quarters and at least a 1.5% edge on dollars.
To have an equally small chance of going bust playing small edge non-progressives the BR requirement is probably larger depending on the specific game.
My acquaintance that used to play $FPDW full time, said he would not have considered it with less than $200,000. And apparently he took a $120,000 down swing once during his career. He also said overall he made very close to expectancy during a 5 year period.
~FK
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "straub4" <straub@...> wrote:Frank:
What are the variances on the M progressives (or are they a moving target) and what type of bankroll would one need to safely play the 25c and $1.00 progressives.
I know each game will be different, but I'm just trying to get a feel of how big a bankroll would be reasonable say at only 5% chance to go bust or say a 2% chance to go bust or less.
I'm a little rusty on my terminolgy so if I haven't used the correct terminolgy in my questions, sorry.
ST
