I've noticed lately a tendency by people to bust out and then leave a table. I'm assuming in many cases the players were tilting when they did this, so under those circumstances, doing so is probably a good decision. Other than that though, I'm not so sure. I've found that I may well loose a buy-in or two at a table I'm sitting at if I make a bad call or get a bad beat. Rarely do I consider this reason to get up and leave. Maybe I'm just stubbon, but if I can I try to stick around until I've made back what I lost (hopefully and then some). In almost all cases I've been able to do that.

I prefer to leave a table after I've built up a decent stack. I try to follow the money train to its last stop, but once it starts turning the other direction, I leave, even if it's just to find another table and buy-in with less at stake. Even as I'm building I may set amounts that if I go below, I leave the table (ie I reach $40 and make a rule for myself that if I shrink back below $35 I leave to secure the profits).

That's me. What about you?

- Jeffrey