Can you lose 5 buyins in HU in one hour and still be a good player?

[amoeba]

oh. I guess I misinterpreted an earlier post.

and the flop was J88 instead of J22, my bad.

I certainly don't feel qualified to comment on this limit but I feel the big difference is that you got paid off on your big hands but he didn't.

on those hands when he made the flush, it seems that he missed a street of bets. Now, whether you would have called down an extra street I don't know, but its certainly plausible that in the 2 or 3 hands in which he had the flush and you called 2 streets of bets, that it is possible for you to make a mistake and call down 3 streets.

I guess I just see a lot of checking from him when he makes a big hand.