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Cash game poker players, do you know when it’s time to stop grinding? When it’s optimal to walk away from a session and when should you keep on playing? We asked top cash game players Timofey Kuznetsov, Sam Trickett, Steve O’Dwyer, Rui Cao, Lucas Greenwood, Fedor Holz and Paul Phua. https://www.paulphuapoker.com/ask-pros-stop-cash-games/

Timofey “Trueteller” Kuznetsov: I usually never stop, I usually play until the game’s going, I very rarely just stop when I feel tired or it’s not fun playing any more but that’s usually in an online game. In live games I usually never stop until the games stop. Live, I think I played 55 hours one time and many times over, like, 35.

Sam Trickett: I never stop whether I’m winning or losing. The only time I’d quit is if the game’s not good and I’m not playing too good or I’m tired. I don’t play so well when I’m tired. I’ve noticed that in the past my results have suffered when I’ve been tired. You think you’re playing OK at the time but you wake up the next day and go back over the hands “Wow, I could have done this different, that different”. The result of how I’m doing, winning or losing, sometimes matters. If I’m in a really good game, it’s hard for me to quit anyway. If it’s fun and exciting and I’m enjoying myself I’ll tend not to quit because it’s fun when you get into a nice game and the stakes are big and you don’t get to play in these games too often. So if the game’s fun and I’m enjoying it I’ll just keep playing but it doesn’t really matter if I’m winning or losing.

Steve O’Dwyer: I stop playing when I don’t feel like playing anymore. Sometimes I play short sessions, sometimes I play long sessions. I don’t play that much cash but it’s just whenever you are feeling like it’s time to go you should just probably just go.

Rui Cao: I don’t like to walk away usually, but I rarely walk away when I’m winning. Sometimes if I’m tired and I’m losing I may walk away because I just don’t want to play the game, not because I’m tilted or something like this.

Lucas Greenwood: I don’t think you should stop based on how much money you are up or down because you should try to decide based on how you’re feeling and how good the game is. If you’re stuck a few buy-ins in cash games it’s easy to think ‘I’ll just keep playing and I can get this back’, but that could take all night and at some point you ought to think of poker as one long session and realise that you can’t win every day. If the game’s not good, or if you’re tired or not feeling up to it or would just rather do something else, it’s probably a better use of your time.

Fedor Holz: It’s mostly depending on how I feel, it’s not really money-dependent. It’s more about how I feel about continuing playing rather than how much I’m up or down. If I feel good, whether I lost or won, that’s my measurement.

Paul Phua: For me, for a full deck game, I have never really thought about when to stop because of ‘I’ve lost so much.’ Nowadays, for the past three years, every session is maybe 10 or 12 hours compared to before when every session was maybe 25 to 30 hours, so I think it’s healthier this way, isn’t it, not to play 20 or 30 hours?

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