800 BB Downswing.....

Piz0wn0reD!!!!!! · #1 02-10-2005, 01:26 PM

Well, 800 BB in party 100NL 6max. So its only $3,201.38, or 32 buy ins. This is just this month, i think im down maybe 400 more if you count the last day of JAN.

Some background: I have been a full time pro for 13 months now. Most of that time i played 100NL full, 2 months of limit (3/6 5/10) and some tourneys. Of course i have seen some amazing downswings in my time in NL and limit, but this is by far the worst I have personally encountered.

Some stats from this month:
9,070 hands -3,201.38.

SD for this month: 32.4 (5 or so above my SD from all previous 6max 100NL hands).

hands that im down w/ this month:
JJ -774
AKo -268
KQs -225
KK -207
TT -161 (i think this is from bad play. For some reason i suck ass w/ TT)
99 -55

Of course some of this downswing is surely from bad play. But i feel that with a few exceptions i have been playing my absolute A game (at a few points my online roll was so thin i had to play less tables than usual thus i was paying more attention). The bulk of it is from 1 session where i didnt win ONE hand where i was all in. the vast majority of the time i have all my chips in i have the best of it.

Some other downsings i have encountered:

Obviously the usual small swings.

28,500 hands at 3/6 +665$ (previously the worst run ive encountered)

about 10k hands 100NL full -about $1k (i have been on one of these twice i think. I figured thats as bad as it gets. hehe, i was WRONG!)

So basiacly this is by far the most money i have ever been down. Its really eye opening. I have been thinking about all the time i played as a pro w/ no cusion or a short roll. This is the hard evidence that it is CRUCIAL to have a full roll and a nice cusion.

well i just had to "vent". Hope i didnt bore you to death.

David ross eat your heart out.

ps. wtf does eat your heart out mean?

SomethingClever · #2 02-10-2005, 01:34 PM

How did the rest of the day end up yesterday? Were you down further than when I was on AIM?

Keep ya head up. Don't go on tilt or play tired.

And remember, pwntown.

dogmeat · #3 02-10-2005, 01:51 PM

Sorry to hear about your downswing. I started full time in Dec. 03, so 14 months for me now - and I'm at +152 for the last 24,000 hands. I've dropped down from $5/$10 and $10/$20 to $2/$4 for some sanity. Oh well, it happens, right?

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Piz0wn0reD!!!!!! · #4 02-10-2005, 01:55 PM

Well, shitty. Since i talked to you last i have prolly lost another 800$ or so. I actually had to REDEPOSIT!!!!!!!!1

never had to do taht before.

Yeti · #5 02-10-2005, 02:14 PM

Take at least 3-4 days off and go over a lot of hands in PT. Try and analyse stuff you've been doing differently. I can't stress how important this is.

Piz0wn0reD!!!!!! · #6 02-10-2005, 02:18 PM

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Take at least 3-4 days off and go over a lot of hands in PT. Try and analyse stuff you've been doing differently. I can't stress how important this is.

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While i agree with you i have to save up for taxes. So i will be playing 3k hands a day. I will of course go thru PT tho.

Inthacup · #7 02-10-2005, 02:23 PM

(at a few points my online roll was so thin i had to play less tables than usual thus i was paying more attention)

You make it sound as if playing fewer tables decreased your variance.

Piz0wn0reD!!!!!! · #8 02-10-2005, 02:25 PM

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(at a few points my online roll was so thin i had to play less tables than usual thus i was paying more attention)

You make it sound as if playing fewer tables decreased your variance.

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To clarify: i didnt have enough avalible money to rebuy at tables i was shortstacked at.

Sponger15SB · #9 02-10-2005, 02:25 PM

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(at a few points my online roll was so thin i had to play less tables than usual thus i was paying more attention)

You make it sound as if playing fewer tables decreased your variance.

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I didn't infer that at all.

Inthacup · #10 02-10-2005, 02:39 PM

Was I talking to you?