It makes no sense to stay in a poker game, struggling to get even, unless you would normally continue to play that poker game if you were ahead. If you are a professional poker player, then the more hours you spend in games, under good working conditions, the more profit you will earn. You get paid by the hour, pure and simple.
Sometimes it might not seem that way because the fluctuations in poker are so great that it's hard to imagine yourself working for an hourly wage. But that's what's happening. Eventually the more hours you play poker under profitable conditions, the more your bankroll will grow. But you only have so many hours to invest in poker and you need to invest them wisely. Find the best poker games. Make sure you are playing when you are in condition to do the best job. You need to weigh everything. For instance, it's not good to play poker when you are tired. But if the poker game is very good, you might occasionally choose to continue playing, even if you are tired. Conversely, sometimes you might choose to go home early and rest even though the poker game is profitable because you think that another game will be more profitable tomorrow.
So you need to make choices about which hours will be the most profitable. Okay but what you do not need to do is choose to play poker for hours on end in an attempt to get even for the session. Whether you win or lose today has nothing whatsoever to do with your overall sucess. It doesn't matter when you quit or when you play, as long as your decision is based on how profitable the next hour will be.
Think about this, you start every pot even. Your bankroll is always only as big as when the pot begins. You are never winning or losing when the poker cards are dealt. You are always even. So it makes no sense to try to get even. You already are.
