How long are your cash sessions?

[nameless1537]

I’ve been finding that my time at a cash table is often limited to an hour due to different situations. Some things that have affected my decision to leave a table (that didn’t include stuff happening around me at home that made me drop a game) include:

- table emptying out without new “blood” filling seats (I don’t like playing short-handed right now)
- fish/whale getting stacked and leaving table
- fish winning a big hand and promptly leaving to “take profit”
- Changing conditions such as a LAG sitting down to my left and making life more difficult for me
- when I get stacked for a second time in a session (that’s my personal stop loss)
- when I sense tilt beginning to creep into my game

It’s kind of rare that I get to leave a table on my own terms (where I feel I’m tired and need a break). My sessions usually average somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes. On some rare occasions, I go for longer than an hour at a given table.

In total, the longest a cash session goes for me is usually around 1.5 hours, but usually around an hour.

What have you guys experienced? What’s your average session length?

 

[EvertonGirl]

Mine averages around an hour too, mainly for the same reason as you that people are either sitting out or leaving, I go to play a 6max not a HU lol. I never stack the fish either, someone else seems to do it, and I know all too well about the calling station hitting their draws and doing a runner straight after lol.

 

[TheGenera1]

I think it's good that you have conditions for leaving, especially if the dynamics have become less favourable.

My average session is 4-5hours but I've done longer. 11.5k hands last week for example, that must have been an 11hour session that I finished at 6am. (I was stuck a lot and going through a downswing lol)

 

[Roger1960]

When I played them, I would play for hours at a time. I would have to have my brother to tell me to leave when I was way ahead. What goes up, sometimes goes down. lol

 

[Babis VGS]

Usually 4 hours. Stop loss at 5 BI.

 

[yoejslattery]

I have had similar experiences. When I grind for longer than an hour or 2 i seem to leave only up between 10% and 50% of a buy in. My shorter sessions are usually when I have lost my stack a couple times. I feel like I really need to change gears alot in order to continue winning but that leads to losing both to Nits who get their set mine and to LAGtards that bluff me off TPTK. It can be very frustrating.

 

[lcid86]

Online it's about an hour. Live, I usually play around 4 hour sessions.

 

[pentazepam]

Between 2003-2013 almost never less than 6 hours per session - usually more. And nearly every day.

Today I play just a few hours per week. And almost never cash unless a mixed game are running.

I played so much holdem and PLO that it become boring. And the games got a lot tougher.

 

[jh70]

I dont really even bother to go play unless i can play for a couple hours or more. I enjoy a nice 8-12hr session when I can.

 

[Cash2019]

Hey. Usually my gaming session lasts about 2 hours, then I take a short break and continue to play for another 2 hours. In the future I want to devote more time to playing poker and play about 8 hours a day, but it is quite difficult for me.

 

[namvidnee]

I usually have a session lasts an hour. Then I get bored and switch to other games.

 

[Johnkanon]

I usually play between 1 and 2 hour sessions. If i lose 3 buy-ins i quit because i got the feeling that it affects my decision making.