session time vs session goal

[johnpoker]

ok you have a goal of $100 perday and time limit of 8 hours when you hit your $100 early do you continue to play your hours or do you stop? opinions please

[klinkman]

Setting goals for sessions is a terrible idea in my opinion. If you set a goal like that for yourself, then hit it early, you might convince yourself to leave a game that is very good. Or, you might find yourself down for the session and close to the time limit that you set, so you take chances that you might not otherwise take in order to get yourself even or to your goal. Setting goals for yourself over a long period is good for over a long period, where you can evaluate your play over the period and see what you have achieved. But over a term as short as 1 session anything can happen, and setting goals such as "I have to make $100 today" can harm you over a longer term, and as poker players we have to look at the long term, lest variance eat us alive.

[johnpoker]

thank you klink for your insight

[USCTrojans]

Another thing is to:

Never play poker just cause you are bored or have nothing else to do, Play because you wanna play it, if you play bored you will make bad plays

[bio]

so very true i have learned this lesson many times...wowi have nothing to do lets log on and play some poker...oops donked all my cash away and still bored!! lol the only goal i try to set is play when i feel like playing, quit when i feel as if i'm done, and...try not to lose! my goal is always to walk away a winner lol

[USCTrojans]

so very true i have learned this lesson many times...wowi have nothing to do lets log on and play some poker...oops donked all my cash away and still bored!! lol the only goal i try to set is play when i feel like playing, quit when i feel as if i'm done, and...try not to lose! my goal is always to walk away a winner lol

Exactly, lets play poker in a bad way just cause we aint got nothing to do. It really hurts, BE CAREFUL, STAY AWAY!!!