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Originally Posted by SirRawrsALot
If the amount of money you have in front of you causes you to change your game, leave immediately.
I leave when I feel like it, or at a preset time because I have to go to work or I want to be home by X:00 (I live an hour away).
I don't know about leaving because the stack causes you to change your game. Differences in stack size
should cause you to change your game, at least in big-bet games. There's a world of difference between playing NLHE, for example, with 50 BB effective stacks and 500 BB effective stacks.
If it causes you to play differently in a bad way—say, scared or recklessly—then you should leave. You should also go home and do some research and thinking about how to play with a big stack. Deep-stack play can be very profitable when done right.
Personally, I leave when I'm ready to leave. Once in a great while I'll leave if the game gets bad, but that seldom happens. I suppose that if I were playing higher than my bankroll can justify, and I were to catch a few big wins, I might lock up the win, but I avoid playing over my bankroll as much as possible.