What is your biggest downswing?
 

Take the poll & comment.

Re: What is your biggest downswing?
 

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.

Re: What is your biggest downswing?
 

again?

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

Re: What is your biggest downswing?
 

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

Re: What is your biggest downswing?
 

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.

Re: What is your biggest downswing?
 

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

Re: What is your biggest downswing?
 

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.

Re: What is your biggest downswing?
 

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?

Re: What is your biggest downswing?
 

These threads were interesting the first 50 times.

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

Re: What is your biggest downswing?
 

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.