You have been playing .25/.5 NL.

You have a Bankroll of $1300

You decide to take a shot at a .5/1NL game.

You buy in for $100 and soon find yourself with a stack of $600.

There is a player at the table with $500 and one with $800, but the rest have $50-200.

There are 3 other NL tables running with the same buy-in on the site.

do you feel you are the best/one of the better players on the table?

do you feel if you stay you have more of a chance of winning more or losing?

are you tired, or still playing your best game?

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Playing in a game where you can potentially lose 1/3 of your bankroll in one hand is a mistake.

If you want to keep playing, there's nothing wrong with joining a different table. Of course, taking a break is fine too. Quit/Celebrate and Join a different table are essentially the same choice.

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“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.” - John von Neumann

Leave the table. I picked go find another one but stopping is fine too if you don't want to go through the effort of feeling out a new table and everything that goes along with it.

Bonch is spot on. Yeah, you may have the roll for it, but in the last session your roll has changed dramatically. You are in essence playing in a $500 buy in game. Which is way above your bankroll

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I find your response in this thread shallow, and pedantic...

I cant see me risking 600$ when my roll is 1800!

So Would probably quit and have a few beers to cool off considering I would probably b pretty much exited!

KJ

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Originally Posted by Girevik
Heck, I've seen people go nuts with middle pair!

I think these factors are true for limit, not no-limit and bonch and steve-o pointed out.

There was a thread on 2+2 about Chris Ferguson's $1 to $20k where he used a method of pullilng leaving a table when he had a certain % of his roll in play. Some of the comments inpsired this poll. I was hoping it would go a little long before Bonch and Steve-O gave such definitive answers

I understand everyone's responses so far, but I remember reading somewhere (magazine article with a female pro, just can't remember which one) was saying people have it backwards. They play too long when they are losing, and cut it off too early when they are winning. You have just spent a considerable investment in time and energy cultivating a winning TA table image at this table. Why would you leave. Now of course you don't want to lose your whole stack to one mistake or a suckout, but at the same time, if you change tables or clear away some of your cash, 1) you don't have the image anymore and 2) what happens when you get all in with the bigger stack. All of the sudden instead of cutting his legs out from under him, you've only take a bite out of him. Yes it goes both ways (sa far as risk/reward), and I understand that it represents a large part of your BR, but I think there is a lot to say for staying and playing as well.

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Nimvin
"I bet how much?!"

Nimvin you're thinking wrong. This is a cash game; we don't give a shit about cutting his legs out from under him. The only thing that matters here is keeping a positive win rate and staying properly bankrolled. You're not BRed for this game if you can lose 600 in one hand.

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“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.” - John von Neumann

It would probably take a few hands after I hit the $600 mark to realize what my stack actually represented and what was happening.

I would then continue to play for x amount of hands....x representing # of hands dealt, stopping on x00, x25, x50 or x75. Which ever comes next and I would play ultra-tight in a scared money kind of way.

Then take a break, have a beer or x and then go back and start fresh at the .5/1 NL game again.

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"Ok, this is for the game. How you doin' over there? NOT TOO GOOD!"" -Bubble Boy

I understand its a cash game, and I guess cutting his legs out from under him was a bad way to put it. What I meant was if you both get HU for some reason, the best way to win the most money from him is to have as much as him at the table that way you maximize your profit. However, this can also maximize your loss. I am not saying that leaving is wrong and I understand that it represents a huge portion of your BR. I am just saying you have obviously played well to this point (assumption on my part, it could be variance ) and that people are scared of you and will play predictably against you.

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Nimvin
"I bet how much?!"