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Brave_n_Crazy
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I am, for all intents, new to no limit ring games as I haven't played them in years and when I did I paid no mind to whether I was winning or losing. My question is one I never quite answered for limit either, but here I am wondering specifically about NL.
How do you plan your exit strategy at a table? I would assume you don't want to leave so long as you are winning, but how do you decide that it's time to go? On limit I would leave a table if I lost 25% of the winnings I had made or if I dropped below 75% of my initial buy-in. Obviously, in NL these are extremely tight numbers.
Two examples from today:
On a 2NL table I won a huge hand and was up $1.71. By the time I left the table (due to external forces) I was down to a $1.01 profit. While I'm quite happy with a dollar, the extra .70 would have helped make up for the second table.
On the second 2NL table, I was up about .93 when I lost $2.00 to higher trips, leaving me with .93 on the table. The two players to my left were both completely nuts, reraising almost every hand or going all-in on the flop even with absolutely nothing. I hung on for about half an hour with no real profit or loss, then busted out on a 2-outer to one of these two.
I have been playing following fx's guidelines to 2NL so my play is fairly tight and aggressive, but I don't bluff or fish. I am thinking that perhaps, given the position of being first to act in front of two loose cannons, I should have left that table sooner rather than hoping to get all-in and double up. On the first table, I really don't know what I should have done.
Any thoughts? (wish I could link Kenny Rogers here ...)
How do you plan your exit strategy at a table? I would assume you don't want to leave so long as you are winning, but how do you decide that it's time to go? On limit I would leave a table if I lost 25% of the winnings I had made or if I dropped below 75% of my initial buy-in. Obviously, in NL these are extremely tight numbers.
Two examples from today:
On a 2NL table I won a huge hand and was up $1.71. By the time I left the table (due to external forces) I was down to a $1.01 profit. While I'm quite happy with a dollar, the extra .70 would have helped make up for the second table.
On the second 2NL table, I was up about .93 when I lost $2.00 to higher trips, leaving me with .93 on the table. The two players to my left were both completely nuts, reraising almost every hand or going all-in on the flop even with absolutely nothing. I hung on for about half an hour with no real profit or loss, then busted out on a 2-outer to one of these two.
I have been playing following fx's guidelines to 2NL so my play is fairly tight and aggressive, but I don't bluff or fish. I am thinking that perhaps, given the position of being first to act in front of two loose cannons, I should have left that table sooner rather than hoping to get all-in and double up. On the first table, I really don't know what I should have done.
Any thoughts? (wish I could link Kenny Rogers here ...)
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