What is your biggest downswing?

[Gugel]

Take the poll & comment.

[Big_Jim]

I had a real bad swing a few months ago where I dropped like 15 buy ins in the $400-$600 games.

Bad beats, bad situations, some tilt, cold cards... really really sucked.

I've won it all back, and then some, though.

[swolfe]

again?

EDIT: not you bigjim...we seem to have this poll every week

[Gugel]

sorry, i've never seen them.
i just want a sense of what kind of losses people have experienced.

[swarm]

The aggressiveness of your play style certainly dictates the buy in swings both good and bad... Worst was a month back dropped 10 400NL within a couple days.Got a little bit cold decked, little bit tilty and a lot weak tighty twoard the end of the swing. Big 10+ downswings hurt.

Went into a 2 week breakeven period, looked at pokertracker and realized my aggression had to decreased to the level of a pussy. Kicked it back into top gear and won 20 buyins in 3 days and have been cruising upward since.

Always monitor your aggression level in pokertracker.

[ahnuld]

lost 3k in one day. 5 buyins of 400nl then 9 straight 100 sitngoes no cashins. That day sucked.

[VarlosZ]

Went through a horrible stretch a few months ago where I lost about 13 buy-ins in under two weeks. It was especially bad since I play a pretty low-variance game. Just a ridiculous stretch of KK vs. AA, set over set, ridiculous draws hitting against me, etc.

[crosse91]

12 600nl buyins.
it sucks.
esp b/c i beat the 400's pretty handedy, and am fairing well at 1k....

so what the hell?

[Niwa]

These threads were interesting the first 50 times.

Edit: didnt realize I am such a dick. I lost 5 buy-ins today. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[beset7]

i was down 12 buyins over 10k hands once not that long ago. set over set, cold cards, a little tilt and the ass-end of the variance lottery. It was a good experience for me though. It prompted me to actually read Gambling Theory and Other Topics and think about fluctuations, variance, risk of ruin, standard deviation, etc etc. I always just paid lip service that [censored] but basically thought because I'd been winning for 150k hands or whatever I'd never run bad like that.

But, I think this post should go in Beats, Brags and Variance. I just felt like replying for some unknown reason.

[RikaKazak]

Last month was the worst month of my life, I played 25K hands and ended up $1,000 (NOTHING when you play NL 400 up to NL 1,000)

Thank god this month is being good to me, up $6,775 so far this month, and that's not counting a $600 euro bonus or rakeback at 32%.

Playing NL 200 and 400 I made 8500 in October and ended November down 2 grand for the month. December is looking better so far though, but variance sucks.

[yvesaint]

12+ buy-in monkey tilt crew represent

[Malachii]

Probably like 8-10 buyins.

[pokerjoker]

this thread really came at a great time for me.

[Raven]

8 buy-in in about 200 k hands of 1/2 - 2/4 - 3/6, mainly 6 max.

[crosse91]

8 buyins over 200000 hands is a consistent (albeit not too bad) loss, not a couple thousand hand downswing.

[Raven]

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8 buyins over 200000 hands is a consistent (albeit not too bad) loss, not a couple thousand hand downswing.

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heu ? 8 buy-in is my worst downswing in a 200 k hands sample, not my result.

[Phoenix1010]

I think there's a forum for this.

31 buyins in SnGs, 250 PTBB in NL ring.

[AllIn3High]

My worst downswing:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6742/realdownswing2rs.jpg

drunk deep-stacked $25nl is brutal!

[crosse91]

oh i gets it. i was mighty confused.

[Bukem_]

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drunk deep-stacked $25nl is brutal!

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Time to move down.

[greygoo]

7 buyins in a matter of 2.5 hours at 5/10. Hitting second-best hands heads up is a bitch.

[aba20]

19 in the last two days, but I did lose a 30 buyin pot with one pair so I am really up 11 buyins for the two days. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Wayfare]

A 30 buy in pot? Your AA vs. something else all in?

How the hell do you even get into a situation where 2 people have 30 buyins at a table?

[aba20]

Sorry sorry I am drunk half that 15 buyin, $7500 at $3/$5, I can't do math in my head, it is posted in high stakes, I made a bad river read and then call.

[zeero3]

Whoever said 1-3 has not been playing poker very long, that's for SURE.

[Big_Jim]

Why the [censored] would you bump this thread for that comment?

[zeero3]

Because I just took a fat one thats why!

[Big_Jim]

Hah, fair enough.