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Originally Posted by BDHarrison
How much you are stuck should be irrelevant. Your answer should be the same if you bought in once and tripled up and then the game becomes better.
While there is no right answer , I think this would be the wrong approach for most. While I understand if you buy in for 1500 and run it up to 4500, those winnings are yours and should be treated as such, stacking off 4500 in this scenario I think isn't as bad as being in a game for 4500, getting even and stacking off. I think if you wanted to quantify it, not losing big is more valuable then winning big. Now the counter argument is if you are a good player you will have more big wins then losses. But in that line of thinking ( in no limit) you have to have some sort of stop loss on the amount of your bankroll you have on the table, which brings us back to our original question. In day trading there's a common mantra don't go broke between your big trades, I think stacking off 4500 after you get even could lead you down that road, and if once in a while you wanna try and run up a buy in that's fine also. We certainly don't want to have a martingale approach buy never leaving the table and eventually/inevitably stacking off