n00b question regarding downswings

[AdamL]

[TomBrooks]

I was running along around 3-4BB/100 for 18k hands and went through a 235 BB downswing over the course of 3 nights. It had a lot to do with suckouts - losing four or five nice pots can account for 100BB right there. But I was also playing for long hours late at night while I was very tired. I also had some other stuff I was worried about in the back of my mind. I thought I could handle it. I could not. I learned not to do that. I took a week off, I reviewed some hands, came back and I'm doing my 3-4BB/100 again. When I reveiwed my hands, I was surprised at some of the crappy plays I was making.

No way can you get lucky and run good to the tune of 7BB/100 over 30k hands. 2 or 3 BB maybe, but not 7. Take a break, review your hands, clear your mind, then try again.

[Womble]

Im currently in a big downswing. 100BB at party 0.5/1

Feels so good today knowing that I made $3 over 200 hands [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[bozlax]

No flames, everybody's been there too often.

The only thing I'd add, and I'm only repeating what I've heard from others, is try to loss-limit yourself to 30BB for any one "session" (if you're multi-tabling, take them all together as a session). I know that I start to get a little tilted (especially if I'm cold-decked, and therefore bored) after I drop about 20BB, and the slide from (20BB) to (100BB) seems to come awfully quickly.

[cigarzfan]

Yes. They happen.

And this "take a break" is good advice.

[SomethingClever]

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pokerroom

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Whoa, I think you'll find the players are a lot worse at Party than they are at PR.

Pokerroom was the first site that actually made me want to kill myself.

[fire_fly]

worse? is that possible?



The other 10k hands at pokerroom I cleared out before I got pokertracker, but through some hand records I'd been keeping, my hand calculated win rate was the same.