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So I walk into a cardroom, buy in for $100 expecting to double that up in 2-3 hrs. However, I catch several miracle hands in a row against some very decent hands. So I am 20 minutes into this session and up $300; very little skill was involved. I am up way more than my target and I want to leave, but I know to leave this soon would be disrespectful. It is a small card room in which I will play these players in the future. Do you stay out of courtesy? What would you do?

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So I walk into a cardroom, buy in for $100 expecting to double that up in 2-3 hrs. However, I catch several miracle hands in a row against some very decent hands. So I am 20 minutes into this session and up $300; very little skill was involved. I am up way more than my target and I want to leave, but I know to leave this soon would be disrespectful. It is a small card room in which I will play these players in the future. Do you stay out of courtesy? What would you do?

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I would duck out early, go home, and study enough to get a better understanding of realistic poker goals.

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Leave when you feel like leaving. If having $300 is likely to alter your approach or put you on tilt then you should leave without feeling guilty.

It's not like this is your Sunday night home game with your drinking buddies.

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I keep playing because I didn't drive an hour to the casino to play for 20 minutes.

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do what slim says

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I keep playing because I didn't drive an hour to the casino to play for 20 minutes.

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This would be my only concern as well. Its 45 min drive depending on traffice to where I play, and I usually go with my buddy, one of us usually goes up big with in the 1st 30 min, and it sucks to want to get up and walk with all that money.

I was thinking that instead of getting up and leaving the room, you could do one of two things. Either color up and leave like 100 in whites (or whatever else they use) or get up cash out and then get in a new game with 100.

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So I walk into a cardroom, buy in for $100 expecting to double that up in 2-3 hrs. However, I catch several miracle hands in a row against some very decent hands. So I am 20 minutes into this session and up $300; very little skill was involved. I am up way more than my target and I want to leave, but I know to leave this soon would be disrespectful. It is a small card room in which I will play these players in the future. Do you stay out of courtesy? What would you do?

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I would duck out early, go home, and study enough to get a better understanding of realistic poker goals.

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If your realistic EV is to double your buy-in every 2 to 3 hours, then you should stay and play unless there is some other over riding factor. The standard rule of thumb is to play as long as there is a +EV in doing so.

Forget about the other players. If they get pissed because you hit and run a 2, 3, or 4 game, tough. If anything it might be to your benifit if they try to head hunt you in the future. Poker is about making the right choices, and if someone is head hunting, they are generally not making correct choices.

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I keep playing because I didn't drive an hour to the casino to play for 20 minutes.

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This would be my only concern as well. Its 45 min drive depending on traffice to where I play, and I usually go with my buddy, one of us usually goes up big with in the 1st 30 min, and it sucks to want to get up and walk with all that money.

I was thinking that instead of getting up and leaving the room, you could do one of two things. Either color up and leave like 100 in whites (or whatever else they use) or get up cash out and then get in a new game with 100.

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Ratholing is bad. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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If your realistic EV is to double your buy-in every 2 to 3 hours, then you should <font color="red">gather up all the cash you and your loved ones have, hock all your worldly goods (save for possibly a loin cloth to hide your shame), max out every line of credit you have, and ransack the graves of your dead relatives before you buy in. Then</font> stay and play unless there is <font color="red">a direct metor strike within the poker room, onset of global nuclear war, or your eyeballs inexplicably fall out of their sockets, in which case I suggest you force the casino to then provide you with Braille cards so you can stay for a while rather than immediately attempting to contact a doctor.</font>

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FYP

To the OP: Seriously, you need to understand what constitutes a realisitc $100NL session before worrying about leaving after going up 3 buy-ins. Did you even consider there will be a lot of days where you will walk in and lose 3 buy-ins right away even though you are playing correctly?