4/8 - B&M...what's your typical/average win

[Durs522]

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Would you consider winning 150+ in a few hours a good session. Maybe I should stop being greedy [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] and leave and do other things.

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With this comment I feel like you are still missing the underlying concept here. Whether you leave +150 or continue playing doesn't really matter. I used to have the same problem. You need to stop looking at poker as an individual session and start seeing it as one continuous game broken up into many sessions. Whether you leave when you are ahead or not will not affect your total bb/hr. It is more of a psychological thing to leave when you are up, however if the game is good there is no reason for you to leave. If you find yourself getting tired, not paying attention, playing too many hands, or playing against opponents that are not optimal i.e. you aren't seeing +4 players to the flop, then by all means you should leave. However if none of these are true I feel it is incorrect to leave just because you are ahead.

I would venture a guess that you're playing on a limited bankroll. You seem to not be able to handle the swings. If you're afraid to lose the money you have won you are not thinking about the game correctly. The only reason to leave a game is because it isn't optimal, not based on your +/-BB. Realize that there are times when your overall +/-BB can cause the game to become bad because of the way it affects you. If you're playing with a large enough bankroll it will become easier to understand that eventually it will even out and you will make your 1-2bb/hr.

I hope this helps some. This concept really helped me to understand the game more. It allowed me to free my mind from the misconceptions I had about when to stay/leave a game.

Durs