How do you guys get through the "down swings"

[futuredoc85]

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I agree that some people have more luck than others, My question is when do you walk away? If you are honestly taking these beats on a daily basis do you just need to tip your cap to the Gods and walk away? I love poker adn really just love playing, but its just so lame sometimes to take hands like this

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im going to show you something here that may be painful to look at. this is all 100NL and i am a winning player over a significant sample. during this run my winning % was less than 50% with full houses and three of a kind, and i was down money with flushes in addition to those two. im still running at a decent winrate lifetime at 100NL, but these kinds of runs do happen. also this is 6m so variance is higher but this was still pretty gross and lots of people would probably quit during this kind of run. also note that while a vast majority of it was bad luck, it also did get to my head and i was definitely not playing 100% optimally all the way through.




note that this is 13 days, and was a lot of money to me at the time. i looked through PT, fixed a few minor things, but realized i was still playing well for the most part. here is the next week after that run:



you just gotta have the mental toughness (and the bankroll) to push through it