[xtwalker]

My rule of thumb for length of play/money I want to make is directly related to the distance to the casino and the stakes I play. Where I play bigger (for me) games it usually a little over an hour to get there and about an hour getting home in the middle of the night.

I usually only get down there Friday afternoons, so it is an easy goal of 10hrs play and a 3-4x my buy-in. I also keep my available funds limited so I can never get into a game too deep.

Funny thing is, I can't remember ever calling it a night early, but I remember plenty of times where I called it a night way too late.

The only time I remember trying to call it a night early was when my wife was with her friends playing bingo down the street. At midnight I was up $1500 and was ready to go, but the ladies weren't ready to go yet. At 1 they were going to stop at Walmart on their way to pick me up. Between 115 and 130 I had QQ cracked twice and lost about $1800 in those two hands. One of the hands I flopped a set and there is no way I could have gotten away from the hand. In the other hand, I made the worst read/play of my poker life and lost my A$$. Fun drive home that night!