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Today I bought in for a 100 dollars, made over a thousand dollars within 2 hours, and after five hours left the table at a little above 200. When I wonder is the best time to leave the table?
 
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I believe you should always leave the table when you have doubled your buy-in. You said you bought in for $100, therefore you should leave the table when you reach $200. If you wanted to carry on playing you could then buy-in for another $100. Using this strategy means that you will never lose more than your original buy-in at any one time. I would also advise you to always leave the table when you're on tilt as you will not be playing your best and you will be spewing your money.
 
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As with everything with poker, it depends.

Most of us at some point will feel really good about winning a bunch and start opening up a bit more. Some people think they are "invincible". With others (like me) it's a more sub-conscious thing that is hard to catch yourself doing.

As long as you have an edge on your opposition, it is fine to keep playing. But most of us do get a little off our games when we are a couple buy ins up. It's called winner's tilt.

Additionally, most of us are pretty used to playing at or near whatever the table max buyin is. We get a little out of our element when we are, say, 3 Buyins up and playing someone of a similar stack size.

Generally I leave or find a different table around when I double up. Sometimes I go to triple up, but no further.
 
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When you double up take your money and leve.
 
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I like the advice that when you double up your buy in that you should take it, and if you are running good, rebuy in for the original amount. And keep doing this as time progresses, so that you never lose more than you started with. This way you also keep pocketing winnings as you go along and protect the big swing that may hit you and lose it all, which in your case seems close to what happened. The time to walk away is when you are playing badly! This is quite subjective, but becomes objective when you consider that you should not be playing to recoup losses. If at that point, which you may have been by the sound of it, walk away, and if you have followed the earlier advice about cashing and rebuking, then you would have protected about $800 and walked away with that rather than $200.

Food for thought!
 
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This is always the trickiest part of a cash game play, I have done the same thing many times and kicked myself a lot. When you start to feel the cards arent going your way anymore, thats when you leave, usually when i take a bad beat and i was really far ahead and im still way up in money i'll get up. Someone told me that once, "When you feel the cards aren't going your way anymore" and thats the best advice anyones ever given me on when to leave a cash game. You can kind of feel it, If you start to get really nice hands preflop and nothing is hitting, or you are starting to get sucked out on, you know that the cards have shifted and its time to hang it up, dont be upset, esepcially if you are up in money, just come back tomorrow or another day. The casino isn't going anywhere!
 
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Furthermore, if you are running good, DO NOT GET UP!... EVER, thats horrible advice to get up when you double up. Cash games can go so many ways but every professional ever says that if you are running good you stay as long as you can!... SO KEEP ON THE TABLE if you are running good!!!!!.. DO NOT GET UP AFTER ONE DOUBLE UP! thats stupid, because cash game swings are so big that it is hard to tell when you are going to lose that $100 2 or 3 times in a row, So if you can bubble 100 into 1200 or so, do it, then when you start to feel a downswing thats when you get up! But never ever get up after one double up, I mean its not like that isnt safe, but on a cash game, esepcially if its like a 1-2$ cash game and thats half the max buy in, thats not a good time to get up, when you have money at the table its time to exploit and play a little bit more and try to make as much money as possible. I have taken 100 into over 1000 plenty of times in my career. One time i sat with 150 and got up in 2 hours with over 1700. So never ever get up after one double up, i would have killed myself if i walked with only 300 and could have had 6x that much! Good luck in future cash games.
 
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This is simple. When you cease to be playing optimal poker, whether you get tired, tilted, distracted, what have you; just get up and take a break. As long as we are playing optimally there is no reason to get up.

If you're afraid of playing deep stacked then that's another story .
 
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I hear you just never that much :)

I have heard different ideas such as if the table is good stay but the reality is your playing with fire every time you play poker and losing and winning is inevitable. Buy in for 100 you should probably leave when you reach 350-400 that a huge profit for a short period of time. I play low limit I get up -80-=140 then dump it all back I'm a consistent winner but do this all to often. If you play a lot take the upswing at or near the peak and go enjoy your earnings. Then repeat the process.
 
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As soon as you feel the tiredness and feeling that you make yourself play.
 
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