Banking

Each table has a buy-in limit. This is the amount of money you can sit at a table with. It helps to level the playing field. A player with $2,800 can have pretty even odds against someone with $500,000 if they play at a $3,000 table. In that case, the rich player would sit down with $3,000 and his remaining $497,000 would stay in the “bank”. Banking happens automatically (assuming you have more than the buy-in amount) whenever you sit down. If the poorer player wins up to $5,000, he can then protect some of this money by standing up and sitting again, which would keep $2,000 in the bank, and put the other $3,000 on the table. You might prefer to keep accumulating money by winning and remaining seated, which could give you an advantage over players who still must sit down with only $3,000. It all depends on your style of play!