when to leave a ring game

beach2002beach2002
in Online Poker
Hi all, I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts on the following. When do you leave a ring game? I know the basic ones, when your tired, when you arent playing your best game, things like that.

But I have also heard that some people leave a table when they have doubled their original buy in. Does anyone have rules that they use?


thanks
labeach

Comments

  • SpicolSpicol
    If the game is really good, I think a positive milestone is counterproductive. You stay until the fish have left or you get too tired to play better than your opponents. Why give up an edge like that?

    When losing at limit (I don't play NL cash games often), I get out after 30 big bets. Obviously, I'm not playing optimal poker if I'm down that much or, if I was playing well and got unlucky, my table image might suck as a result or I might be skidding towards Tilt Town if the beats have been brutal.

    I might also leave before 30 BB if my minds starts to wander or if I'm reading my opponents really poorly for whatever reason. When I think everyone is bluffing me and start calling down 3rd pair, it's time to go whether I'm up or not.
  • JimmyHoJimmyHo
    I leave after I have lost 1.5 times the max buy-in or after I have made a $300 profit (usually playing 1/2). Depends on the nature of the table of course. If it is a really skilled table, I might leave early, if it is weak, I will still around longer. Usually have a set time frame in mind as well. I know a lot of players do not follow this methodology as they feel it limits their profit potential. Someone once told me that the biggest mistake a poker player makes is knowing when to leave the table, and I believe it.
  • beanie42beanie42
    Leave when you don't have an edge (either due to good opponents or your own bad play, tiredness, etc.), just don't feel like playing anymore, or when you are broke. I don't like any sort of arbitrary stop-limit (either up or down) - base it on your edge, not your results.
  • GTA PokerGTA Poker
    When the table is no longer profitable or an hour before work the next day.
  • SpicolSpicol
    GTA Poker wrote: »
    When the table is no longer profitable or an hour before work the next day.

    An hour? For a man, it takes about 45 seconds to change clothes. And that's why God invented mouthwash.
  • schabsschabs
    LOL, I like to play when I've trippled up my initial buy-in, but I also play small limit ring games.
  • moosemoose
    pokerJAH wrote: »
    I leave after I have lost 1.5 times the max buy-in or .

    You get stacked on the first hand and then you buy in short the next hand? Why would you buy in short?
    pokerJAH wrote: »
    Someone once told me that the biggest mistake a poker player makes is NOT knowing when to leave the table, and I believe it.

    FYP.
  • JimmyHoJimmyHo
    don't think I have ever been cleaned out on the first hand (thankfully); usually I buy in for the max and once my stack gets a little lower, I top it up. Any decent player will top up their chips when they get down a little vs getting to zero to rebuy in for less than max. Another good tell that Caro probably missed, look for players that rebuy for less than the max or rebuy when all their chips disappear. I love the players that buy in for $40 at a $200 max table and then lose all their chips only to rebuy again and again for $40. I say bring them on!
  • Big EBig E
    GTA Poker wrote: »
    When the table is no longer profitable or an hour before work the next day.

    Only if you live 55 mins from work, otherwise adjust accordingly. 5 mins is enough to scrub your molars and change your gitch.
  • Royal FlushRoyal Flush
    labeach2002 wrote: »
    Hi all, I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts on the following. When do you leave a ring game? I know the basic ones, when your tired, when you arent playing your best game, things like that.

    But I have also heard that some people leave a table when they have doubled their original buy in. Does anyone have rules that they use?


    thanks
    labeach

    Learn to take a bad beat, and leave.

    sometimes if its a really bad beat you should leave and join a new table
    dont let the rage ge to you, you'll get worst hands and worst decisions

    if its a lucky bad beat, and you know .. know you got this guy stay in and get your money back
  • fdart17fdart17
    Use your gut feeling, and always tell yourself, DO NOT GO ON TILT!
    Going on tilt obviously blinds you from the corrent decisions.
    If you lose yuor buy-in or a chunk of it, and you feel you won`t be able to get it back, then you should leave.
    If you win some, and you think that you won't be able to win more before you lose some more, leave.
    Leaving with someone`s money is always good, they cant get it back (unless you think you can juice more money outta the table, then of course stay)
    thats what i do...
  • SpicolSpicol
    fdart17 wrote: »
    Use your gut feeling, and always tell yourself, DO NOT GO ON TILT!

    I think if you're yelling at yourself, you might be on tilt.
  • fdart17fdart17
    Spicol wrote: »
    I think if you're yelling at yourself, you might be on tilt.

    yeah i wont deny it, im not currently on tilt, it was a few weeks ago, but i know alot of other ppl that have lost alot of money because they didn't quit when they were on tilt (including me)
  • DP_MachineDP_Machine
    The time to leave varies for me, especially depending on where/type of game I'm playing. When I'm hitting up PokerRoom, UB or FTP, I tend to evaluate the game more and making sure that there's players on the table that I'm pretty sure that I can play well against and relieve them of their coin. If not, I find myself switching to a different table, which is a lot easier than if I pay a visit to a B&M Casino.

    Over at a casino, I'm usually more on a time-limit. If I sit down at 11pm - I'll go till 4am, for example. I usually have a set-time where I'll go. The few things that will alter that is if I get really REALLY down in chip size and realize that it's just not my day and pack-up and leave. This usually happens after losing over half of my rebuy. I always buy-in for the max and top up if I'm under half for more than 2-3 passes of the button. In a limit game, I'll reload if I dip under a quarter of my original buy-in and call it in if I lose 3/4 of that. On the flip-side, If I realize that there's some cannons on the table or rookies that pull the minimum buy-in shenanigans, I'll stick around looking for a situation to capitalize off these players.

    As already stated, I also try to follow what I believe the #1 rule of playing poker, regardless of online or live: never play tired!
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