Worst downswing for a winning player.

valenzuela · #1 03-01-2005, 04:44 PM

whats the worst downswing a winning player has experienced ON BUY-INS( 20 buy-ins?30?)

raptor517 · #2 03-01-2005, 07:33 PM

lol, 30 is def not the worst, mine has been to the tune of 50. not fun.

KidNapster · #3 03-01-2005, 07:42 PM

Several months ago I went 40 consecutive sngs without cashing at $55s. After that, I had to question whether or not I was still a winning player. It turns out that I am... but it was still a very demoralizing experience.

voltron87b · #4 03-01-2005, 09:35 PM

No winning player playing well can go 40 SNGs without cashing.

You are either not a winning player or were on complete tilt.

Gramps · #5 03-01-2005, 09:49 PM

50 buy-in (approx) downswing 3 times out of close to 5,000 SNGs at the $215 level. 22 OOTM at one point. Pain, agony, pain.

kamrann · #6 03-01-2005, 09:58 PM

Harsh. I agree some degree of tilt/off form play may be a more likely explanation for a run this bad, but how can you say it's not possible just due to a bad run of luck? Of course it's possible. I don't know how likely, though no doubt it could be estimated given ITM, ROI, SD etc from previous results. But just because you may never have experienced such a run doesn't mean it can't happen. It may happen to you in the future. It probably wont. But it could quite easily have happened to someone else anyway.

valenzuela · #7 03-01-2005, 10:07 PM

40 tourneys OOTM on a row??????????OMG,OMG.

Irieguy · #8 03-01-2005, 10:19 PM

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No winning player playing well can go 40 SNGs without cashing.

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Why not? Could a winning player go 20 in a row without a cash? I have. Gramps has. Anybody who's played a few thousand SNGs has.

If you can go 20 in a row, you can go 20 in a row twice.

Irieguy

Jason Strasser · #9 03-01-2005, 10:25 PM

Gigabet once told me about a 1 or 2 day stretch he lost 16k playin the 200s.

I dont play the sngs anymore tho, but I think my worse was around 15 or 16.

stripsqueez · #10 03-01-2005, 10:29 PM

SNG players have no idea what a decent downswing looks like - i've played around 5,000 SNG's now and the worse downswing was about 35 buy ins which happened in 1 6 hour session of the 200's - i won 38 buy ins in a 5 hour session the next time i played - other than that i dont think i've been through 20 buy ins

stripsqueez - chickenhawk