[Aytumious]

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"Saying that downswings are due to nothing more than bad play shows a huge lack of understanding of basic poker mathematics"

and what basic mathematics are these? understand you have to play well through the swing to overcome it, and thats hard to do when you cant handle one more loss, mentally.

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You started your original post with, "I firmly believe that downswings happen because of the player, not the cards" and then went on about how a person should quit after a few bad beats and go get drunk and laid.

Downswings are mathematically inevitable even for people who are crushing their regular game, so getting upset and quitting is just money down the drain. Not only that, but if you don't understand why downswings are inevitable, you will cause yourself needless psychological suffering when you aren't running well yet still playing well, which can cause tilt.