win streak and then losing it all (low content)

[therockofgibraltar]

Anyone else experienced this?

I usually play 1-2 hours a day, winning 5-15BB per session and then I lose 50-70BB in one day and I'm right where I started.

Then I start again... win little/day and then again losing it all.

I don't have any win/loss -limits, it's just seems to be like this. Although I seem to notice that my lossing sessions are longer --> am I steaming?

That's pretty frustrating! My bankroll has been the same for weeks! Up and down, up and down /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Currently playing 1/2 in pacific and 0,5/1 in party

[HajiShirazu]

These are often just natural fluctuations, dealing with them is without a doubt the toughest and most important step to becoming a winning player.
Anyway it sounds like you are chasing when stuck. While practically everybody does this, you should still try not to do it. Also, take the time to review hands and evaluate your game and results to ensure you are a winning player, possibly purchasing poker tracker.

[numeri]

One of my biggest issues is continuing when I'm playing poorly. Sometimes I'm tired or just not feeling well, but I continue to play with the notion that I'm better than the other players at the table - particularly if there are a bunch of loose passive players at the table.

Even though people will say that you should stay at a "good" table regardless of your current stack, I still get emotionally affected by my chip count and find that I do better if I take a break or just find a different table. Theoretically it shouldn't make a difference, but it seems to help me.

[buriedbeds]

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One of my biggest issues is continuing when I'm playing poorly. Sometimes I'm tired or just not feeling well, but I continue to play with the notion that I'm better than the other players at the table - particularly if there are a bunch of loose passive players at the table. Even though people will say that you should stay at a "good" table regardless of your current stack, I still get emotionally affected by my chip count and find that I do better if I take a break or just find a different table. Theoretically it shouldn't make a difference, but it seems to help me.

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My method for dealing with this is to play enough tables that I don't get to think about it. It often puts me in a situation where I look around after a while and am surprised that I'm down on one table, and equally surprised that I'm way up on another. The more I can make myself concentrate on each individual decision, apart from anything else, the better off I am, imo. Thinking too much about how I *have* been doing, or how I *want* to be doing in the future takes my mind away from where I want it to be, which is making *this* decision on *this* hand. Playing multiple hands simultaneously cuts a lot of this second-guessing off, and stops unnecessary and potentially destructive pattern recognition (i.e. "this table is lucky for me," or, "I would have won with j5o, I should play that from now on!", or "hearts keep coming up...I'm going play hands with hearts in them and get a flush!"...the gambler's pattern gremlin that gets so many of us in trouble).

I also have found that playing this way has made it easier for me to deal with swings when playing in casino or home games, because I'm training my mind to ignore all information unrelated to the present situation (i.e. not even the current hand as a whole, but the current decision on that hand - my decision on my situation at 4th street as opposed to my decision in reference to the whole hand). When I'm not actually playing is when I like to think about everything else (do my studying/reading, work on identifying and fixing leaks in my game based on what I've been doing, etc.).

-jake.

"Just my thoughts. Just what I was feeling at the time."

[grjr]

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Even though people will say that you should stay at a "good" table regardless of your current stack, I still get emotionally affected by my chip count and find that I do better if I take a break or just find a different table. Theoretically it shouldn't make a difference, but it seems to help me.

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By now, most people around here know that I bail out on a table when I'm down 10BB. It's not a popular way to play but it seems to keep me from running up any big losing streaks.

[Saint_D]

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Even though people will say that you should stay at a "good" table regardless of your current stack.

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Which "people"? I don't know anyone who says this in an unqualified way.

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...emotionally affected by my chip count...

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I have been reading these boards regularly since August. A lot of people here whom I would classify as very good players have said in effect "If being at a table is -EV for ANY reason, leave it. Don't stay just because you SHOULD be beating the fish."

Perhaps you can learn not to get emotional about your chip count, maybe you can't. That's for you to explore. But don't feel you have to keep at a losing session for any reason if it's affecting you.

-D