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Old 10-26-2007, 04:31 AM
Harv72b Harv72b is offline
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Default Re: When do you quit for the night?

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-you aren't playing optimally

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If you aren't playing your best but still have an edge, that's not a reason to quit.

Basically:

-The game does not hold a positive edge for you. Either because your opponents aren't bad enough, you're too tired to focus, you're tilting, whatever.
-Real world obligations force you to quit. I.e., food, work, wife, masked gunmen, etc.
-You run out of money.

Which is not to say that one cannot or should not set a stop loss point (or a stop win point); if you're playing recreationally, and especially if you know that you tend to lose focus after losing or winning X number of bets, stop the session when you hit that point. There's also nothing wrong with setting a specific time to get up, so long as you stick to it (unless the game is just soooo juicy that you can't leave).

And yeah, us cash game guys think in terms of big bets per hour, not ROI. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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