When to go to bed

Leftylou

Leftylou

Enthusiast
Silver Level
Joined
Feb 17, 2005
Total posts
54
Chips
0
:confused: This, I believe, is as important, or more so, than knowing how to play low pocket pairs.

I would be very surprised if I were the only one to have dealt with this problem. Say, you played five or six hours during the day (assuming you are home sick or unemployed or it's Saturday and your wife is at her mom's for the weekend - whatever) and hadn't been doing very well, then you get into a couple of freerolls around 8 or 9 pm. You start doing well in one of them and let the other two go, eventually. You play your heart out and there are five really good players at the final table, one of whom is you. It goes on forever and is after two when you take first place. Say it's around fifty bucks, or just less.
You know the minimum to withdraw is fifty bucks and, anyway, you want to have a few bucks to get into a few tournies with better odds than 2K or better players. So you play in a cash game with half your winnings.
Your luck is still holding and next thing you know you have $75 - enough to withdraw $50 and still have $25 to play with.
The perfect time to go to bed.
But you are still energized from the WIN. You ignore the voice in your head saying GO TO BED!
The worse case scenario is you lose every penny of the $75 after awhile on a bad beat. You name it, you flop a nut flush and are beat by a boat. Whatever.
The real question I am asking is - HOW do you learn to listen to that inner voice that knows when it is time to quit. How do you know you aren't on a winning streak that might go on until dawn.
Damn, it's a hard question!!
Leftylou wants to know what you think.
 
J

jrosekcs

Rock Star
Silver Level
Joined
Nov 4, 2008
Total posts
272
Chips
0
if you ever learn the answer...please let me know...was up to $107 on tilt earlier this week and lost it in 3 days...lol thank goodness it was money from a freeroll win...but still sucked....teach me the trick of knowing when to quit and i will be a millionaire in a year lol
 
I

iluvdahate

Enthusiast
Silver Level
Joined
Mar 23, 2008
Total posts
55
Chips
0
it is hard to say really when it is time to get up. cuz if you are playin good i would say for you to stay. but online it can be fickle cuz of the variance that happens so quickly. in a live game i would always tell youto sit there until you were asleep. but online if i get up around 4 to 5 times my buy in i will always get up then and move to another table if i feel i need to keep playing. that is just my opinion. this way you save your winnings but keep playing. gl and play on.:D
 
S

Sonic_x_Reducer

Enthusiast
Silver Level
Joined
Jul 11, 2007
Total posts
90
Chips
0
It's a matter of bankroll managment. There are a ton of blogs out there, and many chapters in good books, but no one but yourself can tell you when to quit. Try setting time limits...a set number of hours and win or lose you are done at the end. You can even set a timer. I am guilty of it to...you just have to try and capture self control.
 
R

rakbarak

Enthusiast
Silver Level
Joined
Apr 30, 2008
Total posts
29
Chips
0
A good poker player is a player who knows his limits and knows stop during periods of bad luck.
;)
 
roundcat

roundcat

Creature of leisure
Silver Level
Joined
Aug 25, 2005
Total posts
2,464
Chips
0
It's time to go to bed when:

a) You're tired and not playing your best
b) You're exercising poor bankroll management (i.e. putting half your bankroll on a table at once)
c) The game isn't good (no bad players in your cash game handing out chips)

Although winning and losing streaks are real, they don't predict immediate or future results unless they're affecting your state of mind. It's smarter to base your decision to play or not to play on practical considerations rather than how you feel your luck might be going.
 
premierplayer

premierplayer

Visionary
Silver Level
Joined
Feb 19, 2007
Total posts
504
Chips
0
When your tired.. playing tired means you aren't playing your best poker.
 
Insaneasylm

Insaneasylm

Rock Star
Silver Level
Joined
Feb 19, 2008
Total posts
130
Chips
0
you go to bed when your head tell you so. because at that very moment you are not thinking about the hand you are in. So you have all ready lost. Then you are down and you start to say to yourself, I'll go to bed when i get back up to 75. that doesn't happen so then you say to yourself, well just one more big hand then i will go to bed. Next thing you know, thats right your busted.

Then after all that you are going to play crappy cards for about 2 days because you are so mad at your self that you didn't go to bed when you first thought of it. THE END
 
Errant Dog

Errant Dog

Rock Star
Silver Level
Joined
Jun 10, 2008
Total posts
141
Chips
0
Its hard for me to answer this question, seeing as I play poker till 3-5 am sometimes.
 
B

BP62

Rising Star
Bronze Level
Joined
Nov 14, 2008
Total posts
14
Chips
0
good question lol im get my money through freerolls than when i get money i will blow it the nxt night after playn 4hours straight. only playn because ive got money
 
C

crazyfool

Enthusiast
Silver Level
Joined
Oct 30, 2008
Total posts
55
Chips
0
This is a question that I obviously don't have the answer to. Its 3:40 here. I also have a problem of doing a late tournament and its like the damn thing never ends. I think the best way is just to set reasonable guidelines ahead of time and stick to them no matter what.
 
Worak

Worak

Legend
Bronze Level
Joined
Oct 25, 2008
Total posts
6,024
Chips
0
I set my limit to midnight during the week.

I must get up at 6 at the latest.

No limit on the weekends.


Go to bed if you're tired.

:icon_sant
 
F

Flushbuster

Enthusiast
Silver Level
Joined
Oct 7, 2008
Total posts
69
Chips
0
When you win a tourney or a big pot go to bed or take a break then you'll come back refreshed and still able to make good decisions.
 
R

royalstud

Enthusiast
Silver Level
Joined
Jan 10, 2007
Total posts
44
Chips
0
I dont really value sleep as much as I use to. With that being said...it's not wonder I play better during the day after I wake up than at nite time.
 
Y

Yankees5

Enthusiast
Silver Level
Joined
Nov 7, 2008
Total posts
64
Chips
0
the answer ive learned to just suck it up and take the winnings..when u win one tourny and ur up for the night just go to bed and sleep knowing your ahead..even if its not that much its more than you started with..cuz the worst feeling in the world is knowin you were up about 4 hrs ago and now u dont ahve anything and even more worse is you have nothing to do on the site the nxt day except freerolls..the sooner you can just suck it up and quit with whatever winnings you have, the longer youll have ur money on the site, the more chances you have to win money, and the more sleep youll get :)
 
T

thebiatch22

Rock Star
Silver Level
Joined
Nov 12, 2008
Total posts
110
Chips
0
i dont know the best time for you to quit but when you are playing and your almost asleep can you look me up and play a few games with me as i could always use some extra xash
 
S

stridsmr

Enthusiast
Silver Level
Joined
Jun 1, 2008
Total posts
48
Chips
0
If I start to feel tired, I stop entering new tournaments for the night and concentrate on the one(s) I'm already in, so I'm not overloading my brain. Whenever I bust out of those - whether it's 30 minutes or 2 hours later - I go do something not related to poker for a little bit, to help myself wind down. It could be watching TV, reading, whatever, just to take my mind off of things. After half an hour or so the adrenaline has worn off and I'm ready to actually go to bed and get some sleep. It's worked pretty well for me so far.
 
jaymfc

jaymfc

R.I.P DJ & Buck
Loyaler
Joined
May 3, 2007
Total posts
16,034
Awards
91
Chips
1,238
It's time to go to bed when:

a) You're tired and not playing your best
b) You're exercising poor bankroll management (i.e. putting half your bankroll on a table at once)
c) The game isn't good (no bad players in your cash game handing out chips)

Although winning and losing streaks are real, they don't predict immediate or future results unless they're affecting your state of mind. It's smarter to base your decision to play or not to play on practical considerations rather than how you feel your luck might be going.


:D :D very nice answer :D :D
 
Theblueduce

Theblueduce

Rock Star
Silver Level
Joined
Nov 15, 2008
Total posts
430
Chips
0
I don't look at it that way....It will tear me up......I keep to my bankroll management plan......If I hit, great......I stop...If I don't...great I stop.....I do this becasue it is sound practice and at least has worked for me...That is how I deal with it....If I don't hit and stop.....it becomes an early family time evening.....
 
Nexus6

Nexus6

Rock Star
Silver Level
Joined
Oct 19, 2008
Total posts
441
Chips
0
Going to bed is an added luxury of winning a long tourney . So its not a problem for me. Just set rules for yourself an follow through . Just like correct bankroll management.
 
bryan24

bryan24

Visionary
Silver Level
Joined
Dec 25, 2006
Total posts
707
Awards
39
Chips
1
I play bad sometimes during the day when I'm wide awake, but play terribleeeeeeeee at night when I am tired. During the week it's no problem because I need to get up early for work. The weekends however are a different story. I have been known to fall asleep at the computer in the middle of a tourney, wake up , and actually go on and win the thing!! Seriously though I would reccomend hitting the sack at the first sign of you dozing off.....
 
dweezel

dweezel

Rock Star
Silver Level
Joined
Sep 10, 2007
Total posts
391
Chips
0
Why would you want to withdraw 50 bucks when you only have 75 ????.
Three words of advice ......Bank Roll Management.
 
2

23rd Paradox

Rising Star
Silver Level
Joined
May 13, 2007
Total posts
22
Chips
0
Its important not to add excess stress to your body. know your limits, both on the table and off.
 
Top