Re: How long can a downswing last for a profitable player?
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How do these long negative ROI streaks affect your hourly rate? There is a fair amount of discussion about pushing marginal edges early with the idea that if you bust out, you can start another tourny and keep your hourly rate up. Have you (Irie or anyone else) compared hourly rate during these downswings to your normal hourly rate?
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This is a great point to bring up, and I definetly want to keep it in mind in the future.
The only conscious thing I do is just about always gamble all my chips with AK early. If someone has raised to say 150 early, Ill come over the top knowing I dont have all that much fold equity, and take my coinflip. The times I run into AA or KK are balanced out by the frequency of times I am called by AQ through A10.
Thanks for the responses from everyone else. My streak has since ended and since I posted I've erased the 12 buy in downswing and gone up a few. I had a great session of 6 out of 8 ITM's with 3 firsts. One of those will bust you out of most losing streaks.
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