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[QUOTE="Lheticus, post: 2301783, member: 111392"]
For my answer to your question in a nutshell, see your text that I put in bold.  Results over one session are completely immaterial.  If you've been getting unlucky, but you are still playing correctly and there are people at the table you are confident you can procure chips from, it is not the best idea to walk away until you pass what is known as the "Threshhold of Pain"--you're down so much that you legitimately cannot compute losing more.

Something no one else seems to be emphasizing in their responses is the importance of having people at the table that you know you can take chips from--the proverbial "spotting the sucker".  This is [I]hugely [/I]important.  If there's only sharks in the water and no fish compared to your skill level, your immediate response should be "GTFO NOW!"  If you sit down at a table with fish, but people come and go and if the fish are going and sharks coming, you should probably be going.

P.S.: For anyone wanting to criticize this advice, please bear in mind when I say "sharks" and "fish" I'm speaking relative to a given player's skill level, where "sharks" are players that that given player would have to get significantly lucky to take a good amount of their chips, and "fish" are players that that given player would not have to do so to take their chips.

P.P.S: This seems to be a topic related to Cash Games--I'm curious why it's in General Poker.
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