When should you stop during a spin-up?
In the Community Weekly Round-Up Barry Carter wonders whether he should cash out or keep spinning after a lucky run.
Last week I found $0.30 in an old poker account and decided to go for a joyride with it while watching a movie (American Hustle - thought it was pretty overrated). By the time Sunday had come around, I had spun it up to just under $200 using a very cavalier bankroll management system.
Obviously I ran very well to manage that.
At what point does a spin-up become your bankroll?
I'm pretty risk averse anyway, but last year I bought a house and that has turned me into an uber nit. That $200 is starting to look like a lawnmower I plan to buy this year (I presume most of our under-25 audience has thrown their laptop out the window in disgust at this point).
But at the same time, $200 is not going to change much in my life, and part of me thinks I should aim higher for my $0.30 investment (I presume those under-25-year-olds that didn't throw their laptop out the window are now wondering why I didn't register for the Sunday Million already).
I'll throw it open to the PokerStrategy.com community to share their views on what my $0.30 spin-up end strategy should be. Let me know what you would do in the comments box, or feel free to just call me a boring old nit.
Thread of the week
We had an interesting strategy video on this topic recently, and now ikkvr has asked the question - is a HUD necessary?
It sparked a very interesting discussion from a large cross section of the community, even going into a Game Theory Optimal debate.
I know from personal experience that I have previously become quite reliant on HUDs, and sometimes have felt I actually played better when I have chosen not to bother.
A lot of the people in the thread have shared their views after having played a lot of hands on smartphones and tablets, which obviously don't have HUDs (yet).
Join the discussion and let us know your thoughts.
LOL of the week
Meet our new tilt busting hero, maxippouce.
Running hot
Last week featured lots of fun stuff including:
• Interviews with George Danzer, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier and George Lind.
• I suggested five real life poker stories that are good enough to become Hollywood movies.
• We showcased all our most popular Gold videos of 2014.
• Catch up on our most popular webinars.
• A new $10,000 freeroll from Poker770.
• Check out all of the best promotions at our partner rooms in May.
Coming up
The next seven days look like this:
• I interviewed a leading expert on promoting more women to play poker.
• Expect us to slowly start building towards the WSOP.
• Live coaching from 
Bierbaer, Unam and BogdanPS.
• New videos from Schnitzelfisch, W34z3l and Splitsuit.
 Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2. He has been working in the poker industry for nine years and in 2013 won the APAT Award for Best Poker Media Provider. You can learn more about his work here.
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