What Is A Reasonable Goal?

I have read in forums about when you sit in for a session of Holdem online or not, many people set a goal for themselves. If they win a certain amount, then they will call it quits and leave a winner. This sounds quite reasonable to me, but brings up my question.

What is a reasonable goal? I like to play $1/$2 and do pretty well. In a perfect world I want to sit in with 50 big bets ($100), but more often than not it's usually 25 big bets or even 12.5 because my bankroll does not support $1/$2, but it's what I like and am happiest at. Be that as it may if I sit with say 25 big bets ($50) what is a reasonable goal? Would it be double my buy-in? Once I have $50 at the table should I call call it quits. What if I sat in with $100? Once I have $200 at the table I will quit. Would this be reasonable or am I setting the goal too high?

Secondly, once I figure my goal should that be for the session or the entire day? If I sit in with $50 and my goal is to win $50 and I do so, then in a couple or few hours should I hit the tables again or should I be happy with the days profits and resume the next day.
Obviously I don't want to leave if I could win more but I don't want to get greedy and give all the profits back either because of a downswing. All opinion eagerly anticipated and greatly appreciated.

suppose it depends on the person
i think this is definately a good way to play - once youve made your cash relax and do something else to take your mind off of poker.

One thing i would say is that your goal has to be realistic to the session your playing (no point saying make $50 at that level if you only have time for an hour). If you dont think youll have time to make your set goal then a better way to view it would be to try and make 5-6 times the big blind per hour.

I dont think taking $100 to the table means you have to make $200 - remember your still playing at the same level. All it does is give you better cover for a bad run of cards.

if you sit down at a $1/$2 table with $100 you'd be doing very very well to make $200, doesn't happen very often in one session, unless your talking about NL where i don't know much about realistic profits? i know if i made $50 for every session i played i'd be delighted.

i'd say stop whenever your happy. don't just be driven by the fact you have to make this amount of money, think about the table your playing at, the players etc. if you still feel you have an edge over the other players why walk away, same if your down on the session and your not doing particularly well, nothing wrong with leaving the table if it's not suiting your style of play.