Originally Posted by arcimede$ View Post
Having a loss limit is a reasonable approach to money management. Win goals/limits don't help you "budget your money" over any other method of limiting your play.
Arc, both loss limits and win goals tell you when to stop. With a loss limit the point is clear -- you've exhausted your budget. With a win goal the point is you have reached a point where experience warns you that the favorable trend may not last and it may be wise to be happy with what you've got.

As I've written before... there were times when I had ten thousand or more in my pocket from wins -- but kept playing trying to win more and ended up giving it all back. Had I kept to a win goal, and even if I had a win goal with a rising stop loss, I would have preserved at least some of that win.

I'm going to say this again: why are so called "advantage video poker players" the only people I know of who reject the idea of having a win goal?