Re: Quitting While Ahead
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...Sure it's not what the pros do...
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Isn't it, in fact, a pro that reccomends leaving the table if you go down 30BB? Lederer? Helmuth? One of 'em.
For me, it's about keeping my level of play up. If I am way up or way down I either start playing too loose or too tight, and that's partly because being up or down a lot is an indication of how long I've been playing. So, I have set arbitrary "limits" for myself, and when I'm closing in on one or the other (-30BB to +50BB), I wait until the blinds get to me and then quit my tables. Then I get up and go do something else for at least 3 hours before I play more.
It's the same thing Blade writes in his article, essentially, except I move away from the game for a little while to let my brain reset.
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