Four months ago I suffered a slump that I thought I would never see the end of. Variance, cold cards, and probably sub-optimal play aligned for a 20,000 hand slide that was completely uncharacteristic for me, as you can see above. I was under the impression that slumps only lasted a few thousand hands or 5,000 at the worst, but I was quickly informed by the crowd here that things could get much worse.
For those of you who have logged 100k hands, I'm curious about the following:
1) What's the longest slump (steady downward trend in your graph) you've experienced in your career?
2) How many slumps lasting 10,000 hands or more have you experienced?
3) Do you think these slumps are normal once every 100,000 or 200,000 hands?
Thanks to the inspiration of people here, I played through it and am on my way up again.