What would you do?

[gjpure]

So a few weeks ago I was playing 2/5 NL live.

After the first several hours I was up like 1.5k. I was hitting a lot of sets and getting paid off. You really can't ask for more than that. Part of me told me I should go home, but the other part told me the game is good and you are running good. Plus I was kinda planning on staying downtown because I wanted to go out later and I was downtown and didn't want to drive back home and back again. Bad reasoning, I suppose.

Anyway, a before I knew it the following hand came up:

A solid, ABC player to my immmediate right raised UTG to $40. I decided to call with Jd10d. A loose-weak-chaser guy who I am familar with also called from the BB.

Flops comes 8/9/x rainbow. Loose-weak guy bets $100. UTG calls and I call. Turn is another blank. Loose weak guy goes all-in for $175. UTG smooth calls, and I call. I don't improve on the river, and loose ~350 on the hand.

I don't feel I played the hand bad except for maybe calling $40 UTG +1 with Jd10d.

A few hands later I overplayed QQ and was only up ~$400.

I also chased a couple other hands were I was getting good odds but just didn't hit.

So what would you do?

Would you keep playing when you are up big? Do you tighten up a bit or play the same and not worry if you loose it back as long as you are playing correctly.

I'm pretty upset about lossing 1k back, but its not like I was donking it off....

What do you do in situations like this and do you leave a table even if it is profitable and you are playing well?

This is also an internal battle for me...