| How do you decide when to leave?
Ok, after last night, it is time to admit to myself that I may have a bit of a problem... I don't think it is a gambling problem, I think it is a quiting problem. And I don't know how to kick the problem....
I drove down to an indian reservation to play some NL yesterday afternoon hoping to catch a little holiday money, and I set myself a goal for money to make/time to leave. That came and passed as I decided that the game I was in had too much easy money sitting on it and I wanted my share. I set myself a new goal for a $ figure and time to leave.
At 1100 I was right at my (second) goal. I was up a fair amount and was on the small blind and told the table I was playing my button and leaving. I end up getting in a raised pot with QQ, and I re-raised to $70, someone pushed all in for $200, got an (all-in) caller for $200 and I called. My opponents had 22 and AJos. There was a 2 in the window and I never improved.
Now I was $200 shy of my (second) goal, and I was even more convinced there was too much soft money at the table. I end up playing another 2.5 hrs (very poorly bc I was tired and a wee bit tilted) before my 1hr drive home, got 2.5hrs of sleep before work this morning, and I lost another $150 trying to get that $200 back.
This is only the second time I have done this on a week night, but needless to say, my wife is getting tired of me rolling home at 230-400 once or twice a week. She really hates it when I get home that late and I don't have a good profit for her to share.
So long introduction to a simple question: How do you decide when to leave a game, and how do you make yourself stick to it?
Feel free to leave serious suggestions or funny anecdotes.  | 
