{"id":353,"date":"2010-02-23T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T04:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=353"},"modified":"2010-02-26T04:51:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T08:51:21","slug":"learning-when-to-walk-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/learning-when-to-walk-away","title":{"rendered":"Learning When to Walk Away from the Poker Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest mistakes that poker players make is staying in the game too long. If you don&#8217;t know when to walk away from the poker table it can kill your bankroll when you are playing for real money.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of different scenarios in which staying in the game can kill your bankroll. The first is when you are losing. A lot of players stay in when they are losing because they keep thinking to themselves, &#8220;I&#8217;ll win the next round&#8221;, and they don&#8217;t want to walk away with a loss. They&#8217;d rather stay in and hope for the best. However, the truth of the matter is that when you are on a losing streak your mind isn&#8217;t totally in the game and you are more likely to continue on your losing streak. If you are starting to feel negative about your game then it&#8217;s time to walk away from your losing streak. Come back when you are feeling more positive and win your losses back.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the scenario where you lose money by staying in the game too long when you are ahead. To many players have gotten cocky when they are on a winning streak, made a big bet or raise and lost all of their winnings. Set a winning limit for yourself. When you have managed to reach this limit walk away to ensure that you hold on to all your winnings.<\/p>\n<p>You can practice walking away with a free game. Keep track of your fun money winnings and losses and walk away when the time is right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest mistakes that poker players make is staying in the game too long. If you don&#8217;t know when to walk away from the poker table it can kill your bankroll when you are playing for real money. There are a couple of different scenarios in which staying in the game can kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,72],"tags":[70,120,122,11,104,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}