When to cash out in a cash game?

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To be brief when do you take the money and run? I went on a cash table and spun £70 into £300 then on one hand lost the lot. I won't go into too many details but we were both all in I had the AKh on a 2h board he had an over pair it all went in and i didnt hit. I am thinking that if i treble up from original stake then leave the casino. One hand can do all that hard work. What do you lot reckon?
 
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I am a big fan of take the money and run! Online I think you should get out of the game as soon as you think your time is right. You can bounce around tables a lot so if I am playing and I think another player has either position or a psychological edge on me at all I will move away ASAP. Lessons learned the hard way.

I live VERY close to my cardroom. My avg time spent in a session was hardly an hour. That was just enough time to play tight, get to look at a few hands and the way people played, and make a couple of big plays. If I doubled or tripled I would wait for the blinds to approach (just to see if I landed Aces or something similar) then I would walk. I've gotten a lot of dirty looks but what the hell, I'm not chained to the table. I made my money and now it is time to go. If I didn't do very well in that hour, well it was unlikely that I had lost too much either.

On a lighter note... I played poker with some guys I was working with at the time. I scored an invite to their game and I simply destroyed it. I bought in for $40 like everyone else and we played 1/2 NL with unlimited rebuys. I left with $280 and never having to buy in again. Cashing me out when I decided to dip my coworker pauses while he's counting all my chips and very straight up tells me this: "You know... if I knew you had this many chips I might've told you that you couldn't leave yet."

I never got invited to play with those guys again :rolleyes: :D
 
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When ever you want it's true that all your hard work can be ruined in one hand and you may feel like "I should of quit" don't let this scare you every time you have a good stack building. Think of iut this way if you would of hit your heart you would have doubled up.

but if you ever do win and feel like you have more then your willing to lose just leave, if you feel uncomfortable about what people think when you hit and run just make your self an excuse or if you want to keep playing but want to take chips off the table (going south) just say "I'll brb I need to get something to eat" and just leave for 30 minutes come back and play with what you are comfortable losing
 
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To be brief when do you take the money and run? I went on a cash table and spun £70 into £300 then on one hand lost the lot. I won't go into too many details but we were both all in I had the AKh on a 2h board he had an over pair it all went in and i didnt hit. I am thinking that if i treble up from original stake then leave the casino. One hand can do all that hard work. What do you lot reckon?
Booking a win is, as I reiterate repeatedly to everyone who asks a question like this, utterly ****ing retarded.

Winning at poker is all about averages. The game is full of variance, so you'll see huge upswings and then you'll see huge downswings, and if you're a skilled, winning player, that all averages out to positive (= money in your pocket). Therefore, you shouldn't concern yourself that a winning session will turn sour because it will, and if you don't let it lady luck will catch up to you and ANOTHER session will turn sour for you. What you should worry about is making decisions that over the LONG RUN are profitable, and to do that you need to play as much of your A game as possible. And when else would you play more of your A game than in a table you're crushing? Why would you deprive yourself of the bottom-line boost that putting in hours when you're winning already gives you? If you're playing a table you're crushing, you play on until you can no longer play your A game, or the other players quit.

If getting that huge beat that wipes out all the money you accumulated over expectation is the point that puts you on tilt, just play until that hits. You'll win so much in a ton of sessions it won't matter, and then in others it'll bring you back to even or slight losses. If you are in fact a solid winning player it all averages out to positive. If you aren't, well... you cannot outrun lady luck forever. :D
 
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Perhaps you get a little bit too ****y when your chipped up? Call too many hands because you have the stack.. Perhaps analyse ur game while stacked up, ask yourself is it because of lady luck or was it a mistake.
Remember you want to force ur opponents into making mistakes... And not make mistakes yourself. Unforced errors destroy bankrolls.
 
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