Hey all,

Know this is a general question and there are circumstances that can change things. But can people give me some of their thoughts on leaving a game? When do you leave? When do you stay? what are your triggers for leaving or staying?

Cheers Mac

I'm going to leave this open for now to see if people have some new and helpful things to say, but this topic has been covered pretty extensively before and with a little bit of searching you could find many of these threads.

Having said that:
Leave when you no longer have an edge over the table.

If you are drunk, high, tired, and feeling stupid, but the entire table is even more drunk, stupid, high, and mouth breathing ******s, then it might be profitable to stay.

But if everyone is on their A game, and you are on your C game, and you are not better than them, leave.

If you don't have an actual plan for stacking most of the villians (possibly all) then you likely either are at a table that is too hard for you, or it's time to leave.

the best time to leave is as soon as you start thinking about leaving, especially if you won a few buy-ins. Otherwise, if you start to think about leaving but stay longer, you will usually tighten up and not play as you would if you first sat down.

So when you start thinking about when to leave (especially if you just counted up your stack) just rack up and go rather than play differently trying not to risk all the money you made all day.

This is for standard games but obviously if you are in a super juicy fish infested game, stay as long as you can keep yourself awake.


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If the game is bad. If you are playing bad or tilted. If you aren't enjoying yourself. If you have accumulated a stack that you personally are uncomfortable having in play.

Thanks big boy that's great advice.

I forget who said it....

But something along the lines as well if your sitting with a certain % of your roll you should get up...i think 20% was the number...not positive

Ferguson said in one of the FTP University vids (on bankroll management mabe?) that you should get up if the stack on the table is greater than 10% of your total bankroll.

If you have a losing image from running bad then you should try to switch tables. Of course, if you are playing bad then you should just leave.

TBH, most threads on this subject aren't really about when you should leave. Most people know that if they are over matched by the villains, drunk, tired, or tilted they should leave. It isn't even a matter of recognizing when this occurs. The problem is getting up from the table. People will rationalize staying lots of ways. You need to develop looking at yourself objectively. It requires willpower. And we can't help you. You have to practice it and do it. There is no other way.

Everyone is different. You gotta learn what your cues to leave are. Obviously, when you aren't playing your A game, you should leave or at least take a break. The real challenge is being self aware enough to identify when this is happening.

I've discovered I don't play well when over 300 bbs deep. While I'm working on improving this, I know that for now, it's best for me to leave the game when I get this deep. Yes, when I'm winning I should stay and take advantage of a table I'm beating, but I know something changes and I don't play my best so I gotta leave. Being aware of when you don't play your best is the first step in figuring out how to fix it.

Lots of good advice so far, but I would like to add something: You should leave as soon as that little voice creeps inside your head saying that you should leave. I'm sure you all know what I mean.

A major problem is that most players set aside x hours to play poker and it is difficult to leave for whatever reason prior to end of that x hours.

You can always table change if you want. I do this when a player is abusing me.

Thanks for leaving this open, ended up getting some great stuff out of it. I will have a research next time though

Great advice thanks

I have will power, just interested to hear other peoples cue's. I guess for me, the challenging part going from a part-time player to grinding full-time http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...-time-1487337/ is that I used to play only part time hours, 15-20 per week. I was able to make $55 p/h in that time, which is great (370 hours logged). But now I'm playing full-time I feel like I should be playing 35 hours per week. So when I run up a stack early in the session, I feel I shouldn't leave and should sit out some hours.

It has worked so well for me to leave when I'm up 2 buy-ins, but like tonight this can happen after just 1 hour sometimes. I think it's because I have a leak when I play deep (my new coach should help with that issue), for now I think its more profitable to leave. Now I'm back to the original issue of playing part time hours though when doing it full time if I'm going to leave after such small sessions.

I feel I have a leak when I'm really deep too, going to address this with my new coach.

Dude, so simple, but probably the thing that resonated with me the most, fully had the little voice in my mind at every session, need to listen to him more!!

Cheers Mac

Quality over quantity when it comes to time played vs the game you are in. If the game is bad it's time to leave. This could be that there is no money on the table, or no easy money on the table. I you look around and you can't spot at least 2 or 3 marks at the table it's time to leave. You win money by playing against playing worse opponents. Once that stops it's time to rack up. Whether you're stuck or up.