When to leave a table

[Ajax95777]

Well, usually i play 2 hours in the morning and 2 at night. I try not to be tilted if i am loosing but if i happend to be on the same table with someone really good i just move on another table

 

[Running Nose II]

Double or triple up makes no sense. What you need is a reasonable Win Limit, (the amount you want to win) and an equally reasonable Loss Limit (the amount you are prepared to lose). When either of these are reached you quit.

 

[MattRyder]

Has anyone ever had this happen to you. You are playing at a cash table and you have won real good, and you are thinking about leaving the table until the next day. However, you continue playing and then you think ":I"m just going to play one more hand and then get off. The next hand you get is a good one so you play it. And all the time during the hand you are ahead. and you make up your mind to get all the chips on the table because this is a monster hand that can't lose. Well maybe so until the dreaded RIVER comes, and he hits that one outer and takes all your money you have played to win for many hours.

Oh yeah, been there!

 

[MattRyder]

Double or triple up makes no sense.

Actually I think it makes a lot of sense for online cash games. The longer you are at a table, the better the other players (and/or their HUDs) get to know your style, the greater the likelihood they'll be able to use that knowledge against you. If you can double/triple up in 30 - 45 minutes or so, it's a good time to leave. Plus, if you're playing that well the table is going to self-destruct anyway, so no point in hanging around just to be the last man standing.

 

[Mr.$t0k]

I always try to double and sometimes triple before going but I'm playing at the lower limits, so my advice may not be relevant to you

 

[LLIypuk]

I get up after doubling

 

[deform fedot]

that question is difficult to answer, because the opponent is bluffing. If you're playing is not all in , you can play through. Naturally, it is better to have at least a pair.

 

[ranma187]

Live: The answer for me is this: when i can no longer profit from the table. I'm either too tired, playing bad, lost my stop loss amount for the day, or when I've made a profit and all the donks have left the table and am only left with players equal to or better than myself. Another time i might leave is when everyone is playing too tight and the pot rarely exceeds $40 unless both people are playing monsters.

My goal for sitting down is to make ridiculous amounts of money. when i can't achieve that at a table no longer, I leave. Simple

 

[Diesss]

I would leave when a cooler goes my way, or when I have lost two or three big pots. I don't need X number of hands or X number of playing hours to realize when a table is not for me.

 

[joe777]

I only play maximum 2 hours per session,maybe less if I manage to hit my target win rate early.Anything more than 2 hours(per session) I would probably start to loss focus.

 

[gmctti]

I belive u need leave a table in two ocasions..
1- when u got 100% more than your money
2- when you lost your money 100%

 

[protuva35]

When you duble up maybe triple up By me if you know save stake you dont have problem sit in table when go duble/triple up.Most important when you stop play poker.

 

[nikolica11]

Untill you have one or more bad players on your right side near to your position you should be consider to stay on the table.
No matter if you have some bad beats you still can easily turn over situation and beat bad players due they here.
When they leave and the game becomes more stronger and there is not much action that could be the right time to consider to leave.

 

[the0]

I think it is when you have won all the money that there is to be won, as Sklansky said.

 

[the0]

For example, in live play you should engage the weaker players in pots, which should be large, and win as much money as possible.

 

[the0]

E.G. there are situations like holding 55 on a KJ2 board, and he as AK,that will win all of the chips off of a weak player.

 

[paulsmall007]

Until you've triple up at least on the plus side, when you've burnt 3 bullets and ur just playing to get ur money back and not to have fun. Or your going beyond 6-7 hrs. Which is a bit much of time, at least for me

 

[Running Nose II]

You leave when you reach either your Win Limit or the Loss Limit you set previously before you started playing.

 

[CSINSC]

If i play a cash table, is it better to play for a certain amount of time or should I be looking to make a certain amount of money before I leave. For example, if I brought 25 to a .10/.25 table is it realistic to expect to make it to 50 or should I quit if I just make a 10$ profit then move to a new table and start again.

I think that trying to get 200% of your money back from your buy-in is a little greedy. It took me many times to learn the lesson that greed & casinos do NOT mix. I cannot tell you the plethora of times that I've been up several hundred if not thousand dollars & left being down money because I was greedy.

I tend to look at it in terms of baseball. If you want to double your money you are trying to win $25 and that would be considered a homerun. You suggested trying to make 2x your buy-in which would be $50 which would be 2 HR's. I personally had this year a 54 straight winning session streak by winning small amounts (at least 20%) each time & you can call them singles. I would rather win almost every single time even if small amounts than lose any amount.

Wish I could say my streak is continuing, but I just got crushed for 4 buy-ins while getting beat by quads twice on river when I had top house. Oh well, can't win them all although I certainly try. For the record during the streak I won 58 full buy-ins at one stake & then 15 buys-ins at next level before I lost a total of 4 buy-ins.

Good luck in your poker endeavors.

 

[TheMagic]

When I start doing stupid calls / raises and that makes me loose lots of money...

 

[stone_d]

Depends if good players or bad players are on the table. Try to farm them if they are bad, leave if they are good.

 

[benjustben]

good advice here! thanks

 

[Che]

If i play a cash table, is it better to play for a certain amount of time or should I be looking to make a certain amount of money before I leave. For example, if I brought 25 to a .10/.25 table is it realistic to expect to make it to 50 or should I quit if I just make a 10$ profit then move to a new table and start again.

This is a very important question you’re asking because people get confused between two concepts. One is what is normally called money management and one is what I would call “bankroll management”. Bankroll management is very important. Even if you are a great player, you must have enough of a bankroll to sustain the inevitable losing streaks. And I have never been opposed to that. Quite the contrary, I have been very vociferous proponent of keeping a big enough bankroll to be able to play and sustain losses. The concept that I am always trying to explain to people is the “other” definition of money management.

Money management in most people’s minds means quitting simply because of how you are doing that day, or continuing to play simply because of how you are doing that day. In other words, you are in a game and you have lost x number of bets so you quit, only to come back tomorrow. Well, that is a silly concept because it is all one game. If you are a serious poker player, you are playing by the week, by the month, not by the day. And if you for instance are in a very good poker game, you don’t quit simply because of how you are doing. You quit because the game has gotten worse, you quit because you are tired. You quit because you don’t want to win too much and have them not invite you back to the game. These are all proper reasons but not because I am going badly, I’m getting bad cards that day, because I’ve lost a certain amount, or because I’ve won a certain amount. This is simply incorrect. This is not my opinion, this is simply incorrect.

If you will play in a game where you have the advantage, the more you play, the more you will eventually win. If you play in a game where you have the disadvantage, the more you play the more you will eventually lose. There’s no way of getting around that. If there was such a thing as getting around having a disadvantage simply by money management, you could go to the crap table and win by money management. In other words by quitting at the right time or not quitting at the right time but you cannot do that.

Money management is a completely spurious idea as far as when you quit or when you don’t quit. The only thing that matters when you are gambling is to gamble when the odds are in your favor, when you are the best player, when you figure to win. And when you are in that situation play as long as you can. When you are not in that situation quit at the first opportunity. That’s really all there is to say. Bankroll management as far as having enough money – that’s different. But money management – no.

 

[shomy21]

When you win . I'm just kidding, I usually play only mtt tournaments. In cash games I quit when I lost money or when I have to go somewhere, so that is not good

 

[ahil5000]

If i play a cash table, is it better to play for a certain amount of time or should I be looking to make a certain amount of money before I leave. For example, if I brought 25 to a .10/.25 table is it realistic to expect to make it to 50 or should I quit if I just make a 10$ profit then move to a new table and start again.

I play a lot of tables and is usually close to 120% if made by BI + and reopen another table if the table has a lot of fish with big stacks that will play up to 400 bb's+ ( if u play cash, i play 5-10k hand per day)