white_lytning
Rock Star
Silver Level
This might be a little long, I'm just looking for comments, or suggestions, or thing other people do.
I am a teacher and avid poker player. I play live cash games 4-5 days a week during the summer. I have a decent bankroll, play a pretty good game, and am getting used to playing for my income. During the summer, my bankroll has increased over 100% and poker has paid for all my food, gas, and drinking for the summer. Every time I play I keep track of my session earnings and time played in a nice little excel sheet. I have hopes of next summer renting a place outside Vegas or AC and trying to play the 5/10 the whole time.
I am seeing a potential weakness in my game after a few months of keeping track of it on the excel sheet. My problem is with the amount of money I leave the table with compared to what I allow myself to lose in each session. I bring three buy ins, and if the session is going bad and I lose it, I leave. Winning sessions I have been leaving with just under 3x my buy in. I have trouble winning more than that and walking away. There's been a few times where I win 5x the buy in, (once in the past year I won 20x). I feel like I am cutting my self short by my conservative approach to leaving the table. My problem is that what I have been doing has been working, but I feel like I could do better. I feel like I could make more per session.
Any other live cash game players out there? What makes you decide that enough is enough and walk away on top? I feel like I am too greedy. I have seen it where I'm up 2 or 3x the buy in and try to make it 5-10x and end up losing some chips trying to gamble to make the extra. Again, I have been pretty successful with my approach right now, but feel like I should be taking a lot more chips off the table than I am.
I am a teacher and avid poker player. I play live cash games 4-5 days a week during the summer. I have a decent bankroll, play a pretty good game, and am getting used to playing for my income. During the summer, my bankroll has increased over 100% and poker has paid for all my food, gas, and drinking for the summer. Every time I play I keep track of my session earnings and time played in a nice little excel sheet. I have hopes of next summer renting a place outside Vegas or AC and trying to play the 5/10 the whole time.
I am seeing a potential weakness in my game after a few months of keeping track of it on the excel sheet. My problem is with the amount of money I leave the table with compared to what I allow myself to lose in each session. I bring three buy ins, and if the session is going bad and I lose it, I leave. Winning sessions I have been leaving with just under 3x my buy in. I have trouble winning more than that and walking away. There's been a few times where I win 5x the buy in, (once in the past year I won 20x). I feel like I am cutting my self short by my conservative approach to leaving the table. My problem is that what I have been doing has been working, but I feel like I could do better. I feel like I could make more per session.
Any other live cash game players out there? What makes you decide that enough is enough and walk away on top? I feel like I am too greedy. I have seen it where I'm up 2 or 3x the buy in and try to make it 5-10x and end up losing some chips trying to gamble to make the extra. Again, I have been pretty successful with my approach right now, but feel like I should be taking a lot more chips off the table than I am.