Another stupid question

[MyMindIsGoing]

This may sound stupid but how many days have you lost money in a row? For the 13.5 months I been playing low stakes holdem I lost a maximum of three days in a row, and that happened three times. Is that a lot or not? Should I expect worse streaks? Even though it might take a week or two to get back from what I lost those days I showed profit the days after.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

depends on how much you play. 3 days w/o net profit? or w/o a winning day?

[AncientPC]

I lost 2k over 4 days which was roughly 10 max buy-ins.

Pizzowned lost something like 4k over the course of a bunch of days.

[MyMindIsGoing]

Not a winning day i mean, like:
day 1: +$10
day 2: -$50
day 3: -$20
day 4: -$50
day 5: +$20

I play 2-3 hours per day.

[gulebjorn]

Same here,
haven't been playing that long though. I suspect that in my case, it's usually a matter of winning long enough to get overconfident or impatient when i'm not winning right away. I then lose enough to be shaken up and start paying more attention to my play, so I start winning again. It happened again yesterday. My flush got beat by a full house. You might call it a bad beat, but i think i was just too much in love with my spades to lay them down. So now i can start playing tight again to recover from the loss and win some more.

[jbright]

its funny, i follow the same basic pattern: win steadily and consistently for several weeks, then have a few days of terrible losses, then get back on track and start winning steadily but unspectacularly again. It's weird b/c it doesn't seem like I'm doing anything different during the few horrible days... more like all the bad beats or set over sets that lose my whole stack happen in one streak.

I'm still a winning player overall, but those patches of losing bring my average way down. I always think afterwards, 'if only I chose not to play on those days'. But since its such a pattern obviously something is behind it - overconfidence, sloppiness, loose starting hands, something.

i think also when the losing streak starts I get frustrated ("But I'm better than all these players!") and start pushing a little too hard, and probably get involved in bad situations I couldve avoided. Still, it never feels that way at the time, and I always have what seems like a good justification for everything.

[ihardlyknowher]

Glad to hear I am not alone in this boat. My theory is that is has to do with the amount of focus I put into the games. When I play 4 tables, I instantly become a loser, even though I feel like I am playing the same way. Also, if I am doing something else while playing 2 or 3 tables (like talking on the phone, looking at porn, or reading 2+2), I lose as well. I think reading your opponents hands is just too important, even at the lowest levels, to not focus on the games. Even a LAG, can pick up the nuts once in a while.

[kurto]

I think I've actually improved my game by moving to my laptop and playing while having the TV on. It's helped me tighten up my game. I play 3-4 tables and watch the boob tube.

I have found even with the tv on (I try to watch stuff that you can look away from the screen and not miss too much), I can still note (on 3 tables) which players are too loose, bet with junk, good/bad, etc.

It prevents me from getting bored when I'm card dead and playing junkier hands.