When Do You Quit?

30something

What's boardsies views on when to stop playing an online cash game ....

1. After achieving a target of buy-in + 25%, 50%, 100%?
2. After loosing 25%, 50%, 100% of buy-in?
3. After a set period of time, 30 mins, 1hr?
4. When you feel like it - depending on cards etc?

RoadSweeper

im usually no 4.

Or when i feel the table isnt as profitable anymore.

RasTa

4. Normally when i feel like it or bordem sets in, usually two table for an hour.

phantom_lord

When the table gets bad I jump into another one, when I get tired I quit. There's no other reason to leave.

ianmc38

When tired, tilty (under control of late), playing badly or bad games (switch table).

I would never leave after losing a buyin or 25% of a buyin. I lost 2.8 buyins in 6 hands last week with AA vs JJ (the same guy both times) and he flpped a jack both times.

So i guess number 4 is most accurate.

a-k-47

depends on which night of the week for me...ill go with number 4..

there have been times when i play cash for hours, once for 12hrs breaking even. that suked

BobSloane

When i double-up, lose a buy-in or after 1 hour usually - whichever happens first.
I'm a real high roller

Mellor

When I get bored, or if I have made alot of money and remaining the table stacks are just two short to be profitable

RoundTower

30something wrote:

When do you quit?

When I get even.

pok3rplaya

I keep seeing posts like this everywhere and I really don't understand them. If you are a winning player, why would you ever want to quit?

OliviaM

number 4. i trust my 'got feel'. seldom am i wrong;)

TacT

losing 3-4 buyins does it for me

Mr. Flibble

pok3rplaya wrote:

I keep seeing posts like this everywhere and I really don't understand them. If you are a winning player, why would you ever want to quit?

No one will continue to be a winning player if they don't take a break to sharpen the axe.

I tend to quit earlier if I'm winning. I'm working on this problem.

cardshark202

I don't quite earlier if I'm winning.
I play longer if I'm losing.

pok3rplaya

Mr. Flibble wrote:

No one will continue to be a winning player if they don't take a break to sharpen the axe.

I tend to quit earlier if I'm winning. I'm working on this problem.

I mean, can you give me a poker reason why you should quit? Obviously you need to eat/piss.

Mr. Flibble

pok3rplaya wrote:

I mean, can you give me a poker reason why you should quit? Obviously you need to eat/piss.

You are going to get tired and your mind will stop working and you'll start to lose for one. Surely you take breaks other than to eat/piss?

pok3rplaya

lol Fibble, ok looks like I'm not going to get away from this one without getting more detailed. What I'm trying to convey is that a winning poker player should never have poker related reasons for leaving the table. I mean, take the OP for example:

1. After achieving a target of buy-in + 25%, 50%, 100%?

Ok so we've made some money and now we want to leave the table? Eh... why? We are a winning player, more hands we play more money we make. Why would we force ourselves to leave for no reason?

2. After loosing 25%, 50%, 100% of buy-in?

See number 1 above. This makes no sense for the same reason.

3. After a set period of time, 30 mins, 1hr?

Again, why leave? Obviously we have to leave to do other real life stuff sometimes but that doesn't count as poker factors. I'm not critisising leaving for non-poker related reasons. Say I am a really good player, I sit down at a 2/4 table full of fish and I make $800 in 45mins and then I force myself to leave because I have reached my "set time". wtf no?

4. When you feel like it -

When I feel like it. Yes, obviously a good reason to leave. But again, not poker dependant.

depending on cards etc?

This is the worst mistake/mis-understanding that new players make. Cards are independant events. Anyone can get a dry run of cards for 30mins. There's nothing you can do. Leaving and coming back tomorrow wont change things. Tommorows cards don't know what you got dealt today. Predicting a 'dry run of cards' is impossible. In fact, even calling it a dry run of cards is detrimental to your development as a player. Think of it as negative variance. Think of everything with a variance mindset.


So, why would I leave a table.

1) Real life reasons. ie. I need to take a dump.
2) Emotional reasons. ie. I'm tilting. (this is a weakness as a player btw. Ideally it shouldn't be a reason because the optimum poker player would control his emotioms well enough to quench his tilts).
3) The game has changes in some way and is no longer profitable.

I think thats it.

Mr. Flibble

I agree with you.
When people say they quit when they lose x buyins I'm sure this a tilt/feel like it issue disguised.
If I lose 4 buying I'm always on tilt and I always feel like quitting (the brain part does anyway).

pok3rplaya

Mr. Flibble wrote:

When people say they quit when they lose x buyins I'm sure this a tilt/feel like it issue disguised.

True. But it is impossible to define an emotional response with a number (x buyins). Learn to recocnise the point were your game turns to a -EV one, quit just before that point.

Mr. Flibble

pok3rplaya wrote:

Learn to recocnise the point were your game turns to a -EV one, quit just before that point.

If I knew they were going to hit a 2 outer I'd quit just before everytime.