[winkydinky85]

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I understand that this may belong in BBV but you guys play at the same level that I do and so I think you will be able to help me more. I am currently going through a 300 BB downswing over the last month (over about 16000 hands), and have had one winning session of 25BB and two of 15 BB. The rest of either been very marginal winners and very big losers.

I have gone through fast downswings before and have heard of bad downswings that last 100000 hands but I am not adjusted to this. Luckily thanks to bonus plus rakeback my bankroll is up slightly. This is not a vent post but I am wondering what is the biggest and longest downswing you guys have gone through and how fast you made it back to where you were. Also post any funny stats or experiences during your downswings. Thanks guys.

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Read All Mason's 2+2 books and you will find that you are in the mathematical/statistical norm. Welcome to our world of Poker. Got the patience/professionalism for the long run?

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Thanks for the posts, all of you. I have taken your advise to heart. I took a week off (well six days but close enough). Read SSHE all over again and read WLLH again as well. Looked over my hand histories from now and then from about 12K hands ago and realized that my play has improved a ton. My progession as a player has been accelerated big time by this downswing.

Marty, I really appreciate you taking the time to post on here again even though you are irratated with me obviously. I read your posts and opinions and really took them to heart. But please understand that it is really hard to say that I am tilting or playing bad when I look over all the hand histories and see nothing but consistant improvement. Now I do not have Pokertracker yet and was going to get it through PSO but since I do not have an E-Wallet right now (waiting for the dust to settle), and then I will use that to help you guys in your evaluations of my play in the future.

I will read the books you listed there (assuming they are free). Hopefully they will help me feel better about this downswing and hopefully I can pull out of it sometime soon. Maybe in the end this downswing will be the best thing that ever happened to me as a poker player. Because without it I would not have plugged some of the leaks in my game and would not have spent as much time looking at other players mistakes and learning from them.