First downswing

[finegrinder]

This is my first "serious" downswing in over one year and a half of real money play.

Play bad + run bad = standard combo.

Here are the last four sessions:

2007-07-14 <font color="red">-$24.45</font>
2007-07-16 <font color="red">-$19.05</font>
2007-07-17 <font color="red">-$72.51</font>
2007-07-18 <font color="red">-$44.00</font>

Actually I lost more in cash games but then recovered some in SnGs.

Stakes? NL10 and $2.75 + $5.5 super turbo 6-max SnGs. /images/graemlins/shocked.gif


Sorry to disappoint, no degen stuff like moving up to chase losses etc.

In case anyone cares, I'm not too worried of going busto ; this loss is less than 10% of my bankroll. I'm a bankroll nit to the extreme.

Still sucks monkey balls though.

[stan ivey]

aGHGhGHGh u spent a year and a HALF to make less than 2k

[hellmuth88]

i think your the monkey

[uncleshady]

Wow, where do we start?

[x]No graph
[x}Graph not in dollars
[x]Happy meal stakes
[x]couch reference
[x]LOL Donkaments
[x[Not really busto

[AbreuTime]

YOU DONT HAVE TO BE A DEGEN TO MOVE UP IN STAKES. YOU'RE WASTING YOUR TIME PLAYING THAT LOW IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO IMPROVE AND MAKE SOME MONEY.

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[Heavens_Myst]

wow man.. i think this post should be in the BBV hall of fame

[Imrahil]

Quit before you lose your bycicle.

[ocdscale]

Seriously, move up.

Also, chasing losses isn't degen. It's a low risk-high return strategy (like martingale).

http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/4315/martingaleew1.png

[finegrinder]

Thanks for the kind words folks, well intended or not. It's my belief there are lessons to learn from the thing people say, maybe not the lessons they are trying to teach you. All input appreciated. Cheers!

[Nielsio]

Hamburger-stakes make me chuckle.

[btmagnetw]

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Thanks for the kind words folks, well intended or not. It's my belief there are lessons to learn from the thing people say, maybe not the lessons they are trying to teach you. All input appreciated. Cheers!

[/ QUOTE ]what lessons did you learn?

[mason55]

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Thanks for the kind words folks, well intended or not. It's my belief there are lessons to learn from the thing people say, maybe not the lessons they are trying to teach you. All input appreciated. Cheers!

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how many grandkids do you have?

[Ace0fSpades]

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YOU DONT HAVE TO BE A DEGEN TO MOVE UP IN STAKES. YOU'RE WASTING YOUR TIME PLAYING THAT LOW IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO IMPROVE AND MAKE SOME MONEY.

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[NozeCandy]

Holy crap dude, you're losing tens of dollars you better cut back or you won't be able to pay rent.

[finegrinder]

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Holy crap dude, you're losing tens of dollars you better cut back or you won't be able to pay rent.

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LOL, I actually have a bankroll, I'm not playing with rent money. Again, thanks for the people's concern, hamburger &amp; happy meal references etc. Seeing that people care restores my faith in humanity. Big up for my evolutionist brother who called me a monkey - glad to see irreligion taking over. As for the fellow who asked if I have grandchildren the answer is unfortunately no - I had my vasectomy like 60 years ago and regret it every single day.

[MaxRaises]

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Hamburger-stakes make me chuckle.

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[mrjetguy]

Losing less than $150 = very dissapointing downswing. Please post a graph in bbs in the future so that we can atleast be tricked into thinking this post is worthwhile.

[Windforce]

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Wow, where do we start?

[x]No graph
[x}Graph not in dollars
[x]Happy meal stakes
[x]couch reference
[x]LOL Donkaments
[x]Not really busto

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[Labarde]

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This is my first "serious" downswing in over one year and a half of real money play.

Play bad + run bad = standard combo.

Here are the last four sessions:

2007-07-14 <font color="red">-$24.45</font>
2007-07-16 <font color="red">-$19.05</font>
2007-07-17 <font color="red">-$72.51</font>
2007-07-18 <font color="red">-$44.00</font>

Actually I lost more in cash games but then recovered some in SnGs.

Stakes? NL10 and $2.75 + $5.5 super turbo 6-max SnGs. /images/graemlins/shocked.gif


Sorry to disappoint, no degen stuff like moving up to chase losses etc.

In case anyone cares, I'm not too worried of going busto ; this loss is less than 10% of my bankroll. I'm a bankroll nit to the extreme.

Still sucks monkey balls though.

[/ QUOTE ] http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w58/Gregwah87/1min4.jpg

[dirtylobster]

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Wow, where do we start?

[x]No graph
[x}Graph not in dollars
[x]Happy meal stakes
[x]couch reference
[x]LOL Donkaments
[x]Not really busto

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[kuey]

If you're not playing $3.4's or 10nl, I'm not even going to consider that a downswing. I lose more than that in 1 bad set.

[finegrinder]

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Losing less than $150 = very dissapointing downswing. Please post a graph in bbs in the future so that we can atleast be tricked into thinking this post is worthwhile.

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Total loss = -160
Stakes are in my OP:

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Actually I lost more in cash games but then recovered some in SnGs.

Stakes? NL10 and $2.75 + $5.5 super turbo 6-max SnGs.

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So discounting the winnings in SnG the loss is about 20 buyins at NL10.

To finish my post in some light mood, here are some Cioran-isms. :


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There are people who are destined to taste only the poison in things, for whom any surprise is a painful surprise and any experience a new occasion for torture. If someone were to say to me that such suffering has subjective reasons, related to the individual's particular makeup, I would then ask ; Is there an objective criterion for evaluating suffering? Who can say with precision that my neighbor suffers more than I do or that Jesus suffered more than all of us? There is no objective standard because suffering cannot be measured according to the external stimulation or local irritation of the organism, but only as it is felt and recorded in consciousness. Alas, from this point of view, any hierarchy is out of the question. Each person remains with his own suffering, which he believes absolute and unlimited. How much would we diminish our personal suffering if we were to compare it to all the world's suffering until now, to the most horrifying agonies and the most complicated tortures [...]



Because in this organically insufficient and fragmentary world, the individual is set to live fully, wishing to make of his own existence an absolute. Each subjective existence is absolute to itself. For this reason each man lives as if he were the centre of the universe or the centre of history. Then how could his suffering fail to be absolute? I cannot understand another's suffering in order to diminish my own. Comparisons in such cases are irrelevant, because suffering is an interior state, in which nothing external can help.


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[deluz35]

OP
You may be too clever for you own good... Also, poker gets better as you move up. Why are you not playing 25?

[finegrinder]

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OP
Also, poker gets better as you move up. Why are you not playing 25?

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Vade retro satana!

[FastPlaySlow]

I've lost more than your bankroll in a period of hours before.

[Hince]

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