How much winning/Losing before I should stop?

How much do you guys win/lose before you stop? Or do you set duration, time limit on your playings?

I usually have time limits on my play because other things get in the way. I will say that my decision to stop before I actually have to comes from my feeling of a table. If I feel I can either make back chips i've lost or I can extract more I will stay, if not I leave. I play alot of SnGs because I have more success with that, I place time restrictions on whether I can enter another.

I usually set time limits - if I play more than 60-90 minutes straight, my focus wanders and I lose my A game. Sometimes, if I feel I can dominate a table full of bad players, I will stay much longer.

As long as you feel you have a good edge (good position, bad players, playing your A game, etc.), you should not leave the table - the fact that you're up should not entice you to leave the game. If you're up and feel that you don't have an edge at the table, get off the table immediately and find an easier table.

Using a stop/loss to limit the amount you are willing to lose in a session is a good idea. If you lose too much in a session, there's a tremendous amount of pressure you can feel to recoup what you lost - this turns into tilt in a hurry for many people (definitely for me).

Ring tables.. You go in with 5% of your BR, and keep it that way, if you go up to 2X times the amount you went in with, you should leave the table, you now have 10.00% of your BR there...
If you stick to BRM you should not have a problem.
^^^^ thats what i do.
Tho with SnGs, DoNs if i win, i may play 2 more, if i lose, i may play 1 more..

If you set down at a cash table have 3 goals in mind when you sit down, when you reach one of these 3 goals it is time to stand up and walk away.

1. You lose all of your buyin
2. You double your buyin
3. Set a time limit on how long you will play, 1 hour, 2 hours etc.

When you have hit one one these 3 it is time to stand up and walk away. But it is important to stick with this. Let's say you have set your 3 goals above with a 1 hour time limit. You reach your 1 hour time limit down 15% of your buyin, dont play that 1 last hand with the mindset that I can break even before I stand up. You may take an unnessary chance that may send you to the rail with a loss of your whole buyin.

On number 1, if you're going to leave when you lose a BI, you're limiting your ability to play good cash game poker in my opinion. This is ok advice for a total noob who doesn't know how to play, but for anyone serious about learning the game this is a horrible limitation to put on your game.

If you agree with my opinion here, note that this means you must be very careful not to play above your bankroll - you have to be prepared to buy in more than once. And I do think setting a max number of BI's is a very good idea - it just ought to be more than 1.

On number 2, I've seen this advice before, from people I respect, and strongly disagree with it. This is accurate if you're bad at deepstack play, but if you have an edge on the table imo you shouldn't leave just because you doubled up, you should stay as long as you have your A game.

Just my opinions.

I like to leave when doubled up in a cash game, for me personally I start to play hands I wouldn't normally play if i get up high and give all my winnings back to the table.

I hope you are asking this questions so you can derive your own set of limits from it, cause taking one persons advice may not be best for you. Take all the the suggestions here and devise the plan you think is best for your style of play/ability.

That being said. If you hate losing , I would suggest setting your stop-loss at 2 buyins. The more you lose the harder it will be to play A-game poker. As far as winnings, you should AVOID getting up as long as you have a good table (which is something you should ALWAYS be aiming for), meaning no cap on what you win. Just be sure you know how to play deep stack poker. And when it comes to time constrictions, thats is completely situational. If you only play with 100% concentration for 3 or 4 hours, then play for 3 or 4 hours. Dont play tired. Or drunk.

Hope this helps.

Well, that depends on your bankroll....
But like any other job you can not play your best poker with full concentration for a long time...
You should play as long as you can hold your game on your best level.....

I also play about 1 to 2 hours, well at ring tables,, But MTTs, SnGs well that gos out the window..
1 hour of play ends up being about 100 hands.

I don't like setting limits, If I think I can beat a majority at the table and I'm playing good I stay. No point in leaving when you take a bad beat but are playing well otherwise. Just avoid playing tired/tiled/angry/lot on your mind etc.

Only play if you think you have an edge and are playing well. Don't pay any attention to anything else. I think it's best not to count your winnings or losings while you play -- that just gets in the way of making good decisions. If you stop making good decisions or think you're over your head, leave.

This I tend to agree with. I tend to play in short, one hour (or so) sessions, and until the session is over I concentrate on the hand and the pot. My thinking is "how can I get this pot ?" or "did I stick to my plan ?" or "can I make it to the river with this hand ?" That seems to be the best way to make consistently good decisions. I review my wins and losses in PokerTracker before logging in, and after logging out. Besides that, and looking at the cashier to confirm balances and VIP points, I do not focus too much on the winning and losing during play. Besides, as many hands as I see (80+ per hour), I gain nothing by marrying my hands... better to focus on the next one, and make sure I don't go bust, lol...

if i'm winning i'm staying. unless i reach a point where 10% of my whole bankroll could be at risk in one hand. this means if my stack is 10% of my whole BR at one table atleast one person there has to have me covered. And chances are i just change tables and keep on w/my session. i dont set a limit on my wins. i do however set a stop loss figure(SLF) of 15% of my total BR. if i lose 15% of my BR in one session thats it im done. good beats, bad beats, doesnt matter down 15% done for the day. what i also do and know you didnt ask is only have a total of 20% max. of my BR in play at any given time. this is spead over many tables of coarse.

Hope i am not sidetracking the thread by asking this but I have been playing limit lately vs NL and PL and was wondering what everyone thought the answer to the OP question would be when playing Limt poker.

Thanks

play tighter when big stacked at no limit everyone wants to slow play the big stack. play as long as your happy with your play,dont leave the table when you double through as chances are you will have just gotten respect on the table more so on smaller stakes as players only ever take notice of big stacks and there own cards

I concur with josh.....Those 3 have served me well. Plus, on line after about an hour I start to loose my focus.

play until you have all the money! just kidding, but seriously, I dont understand the double up and leave idea. If you only ever double up and leave, even if you playing good and the rest of the table isn't, you keep yourself from getting into big pots with bad players. I look at it as if something goes wrong and I lose, I only really lost my origonal buy in, but I have a chance to win a LOT. I think about it as a tournament buy in. I payed this much to play, and its not really my money until I leave the table with it all in tact. If I get to the point where nobody at the table can hurt my stack, and I'm way over the max buy in, I can play all day at one table without worry of anything too terrible happining. And when I get wore out and finally quit I gave a steriod boost to my roll with only ever risking my origonal buy in.

On the other hand if your losing consistantly you should call it a day. Me and my brother have had some good arguements about this. I tell him what I'm telling you, some times its just not your day. Doesn't matter if your the favorite every time the money goes in yet you lose because of dumb luck, just walk away and try again tomorrow. He never listens and always takes huge hits to his roll. His mentality(which I understand his thinking, just disagree) is that if hes playing good even through the beats, and continueing to get his money in with the best hand, theres no reason to quit, it should average out eventually. The probablem is that it doesn't. He just suffers beat after beat after beat until he wants to scream, and ends up losing a lot of his money.