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Legend
Silver Level
Obviously poker is technically one big long session. But it's still broken up into smaller time increments (like sitting down and playing for a few hours).
In cash games especially there's "sessions" where you can be up a few BIs in just a few minutes or down a few BIs after a few minutes. But there's also long sessions where you're playing well but just not getting cards. You might hit a nice double up or two but then get your money in ahead a few hands later and lose to some maniac who sucks out on river. Which often results in wrapping up the current session only to see that you've about "broken even" for that session.
For this purpose I consider breaking even in cash games (whether multi table or single) within less than a third or so a buy in up or down at the end of the session.
So how do you feel about these break even sessions? Do you feel good that you managed to play good poker and won by not losing much? Or do you feel frustrated that 5 hours passed and you made only a few dollars or lost a small amount?
In cash games especially there's "sessions" where you can be up a few BIs in just a few minutes or down a few BIs after a few minutes. But there's also long sessions where you're playing well but just not getting cards. You might hit a nice double up or two but then get your money in ahead a few hands later and lose to some maniac who sucks out on river. Which often results in wrapping up the current session only to see that you've about "broken even" for that session.
For this purpose I consider breaking even in cash games (whether multi table or single) within less than a third or so a buy in up or down at the end of the session.
So how do you feel about these break even sessions? Do you feel good that you managed to play good poker and won by not losing much? Or do you feel frustrated that 5 hours passed and you made only a few dollars or lost a small amount?