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If you are up over a long term (year+) then I'd say that should help your confidence. Try not and look at the short term, as hard as it is to do sometimes. Sometimes I know when I'm running bad I feel better to see the fish (who sucked out on me several times that session) lose all his chips by the end of the session. I know that doesn't help your own financial situation to have your chips re-distributed over the table in everyone else's stack, but at least you can see that bad play will usually lose if nothing else. The bottom line, however, is the bottom line. If your long-term records show a profit then that should be sufficient. The better you are, the better your hourly win rate should be as well.